Center photo. Notice the break lights and an aggressive swerve to avoid the antifa protestor.
I don’t see any swerve. As for the brakes, the guy may have had some internal conflict or it may have been a reflex. People in road rage incidents can have different intentions in their mind at the same time. It’s possible that he could have tried to bargain for a lower charge, but the statements he made earlier and the guilty plea do support the conclusion that doing harm was his intention.