She was "learning how to drive" at 14. Another big factor for me.
Does Texas even allow driver permits for 14 year olds? Pretty sure you need to be 15 to start learning. Then her Uncle allows her to start driving at night with her lights off? Doubtful.
Sounds to me that she was told to "go get their attention", but instead of leading them on a chase, she ended up hitting one of their cars and driving right at some of the officers. How many officers were there? The suit is only brought against 2, but there were likely more if it were an operation to arrest her Father.
"But she was only 14!"
Nobody in harms way knew that, all they knew was a driver in a car was endangering law enforcement agents. Would you hesitate to pull the trigger on someone breaking into your house with a gun drawn? Would you try to find out how old they were before you took action? Of course not. Just because she was 14 doesn't mean that the car was made of soft foam. She could have killed them as easily as a 37 year old man with that car.
I know that there are many here who hate any law enforcement and think all cops and agents deserve to die. Those people are anarchists of a worse kind than any of the loony protestors.
Also, I might add, that the escalation was not brought on by "cops" as another poster pointed out; the escalation was brought on by DRUGS.
No Drugs + No 14 year old behind the wheel + No Suspicious Car With Its Headlights Turned Off + No ramming = No Shooting.
If not for the four points above, the girl would be alive today. And who put the girl in the situation she was in? The agents or the parent(s)? The latter, obviously.
There are even more of the drug lovers (who believe only some laws should be enforced) who will believe a drug dealing slimeball before they'll believe a cop.