Wow. It took, what?, 6 weeks to concoct this ass-covering story?
No, they were claiming that very early on.
Slapping a car is a universal signal of someone approacing. Se was doing what any responsible person would do to insure the police were not suddenly confronted. I ave ad dozens of occasions when slapping a car signaled my proximity, particularly if the car was backing up. The Muslim fanatic who killed her do so for reasons as yet undisclosed but surmised.
That story has been around for a while.
Any investigator can figure where a “woman slapped the rear of the Police Car” and “where the Victim was. I doubt the cop shot past his partner’s face and hit Victim in the rear of the car. This is totally made up. Never mentioned until now. Fireworks were mentioned immediately.
A. Car Slap or B. Bottle rockets
I'd have gone with B.