Correction - there were some things that occurred before they tried to 'box her in'.
"Federal officials say the car pulled away from the house at high speed with the headlights off. When agents tried to box the car in, they say, the girl kept coming toward them and crashed into their vehicle, then threw the car into reverse and rammed the DEA vehicle behind her."
Correction: "Federal officials say..."
Add to that, it is amazing what people will say when they need to cover their backsides. And when there is seemingly no end to people willing to take what they say as incontrovertible fact simply because the people giving their account wear a uniform.
Cops should not be held above the law. If anything, they should be held to a higher standard.
Not a lower standard.