It doesn't seem that the woman was trying to run over the officer at all. Rather, she was trying to get away. The tires are pointing to the right. It's also not clear that the car even touches the guy who shoots, and if it does, it's just barely.
Now, perhaps the officer did think the car was going to run over him, or rather, he had an instinctive reaction that this was the case. But the car being so close already and just starting to move, it does seem like a total disproportionate thing to do to shoot at her three times on the head - at least the last 2 shots as the car had already cleared his path. If she had really meant to hit him, the shooting wouldn't have prevented it and he would have been mildly injured at most.
If this is one of those things that cops are primed to do due to training, then they are trained to react way too violently. I mean, in how many other countries can you find cops who seeing a car just starting to move right in front of them after an argument decide to shoot the driver on the head three times?
The previous interaction of her being asked to open the door and she trying to move back, then forward, should have made it clear that she was on the run, not on the attack, so chances are they were quite aware of her actual intent.
Something I do find quite infuriating - and lots of people on X too as far as I can see - is that Trump quite blatantly lied about it. Here's the tweet:
We can see in the videos that the officer who shot is calmly walking down the street after the event. He wasn't run over "violently, willfully and viciously" and was not injured at all, so if he went to the hospital it was for show. And no, it's not "hard to believe he is alive" at all. Trump says he watched the video himself so it's not like he was misinformed of the events. Actually, I don't see how he thinks he can get away with lying like that. Does he think people don't have eyes? This is going to bite him back. It already is, in fact, and the democrats will make the most of it.
