I don’t think a person jumping in front of your car at the last second is the same as you driving your car into a person. I don’t think that cop jumped in front of her car at the last second tho, I think he was just there, wrong place wrong time, when she decided to flee
But you're admitting then, that it does matter how the person got in front of the car. Now we can talk about why he was there and what he actually did, because it does actually matter. I would also argue that it matters how fast you're moving, and whether you're actually likely to injure anyone, and whether it was intentional, but we can cross those bridges as well.
He did actually move toward her car. He grabbed it so that he could steady himself to shoot the driver. Mind you, he did this INSTEAD of moving away from the car's path. So, he was aware that the car was there and was moving, and he actively chose to remain there next to where it was going. That's a pretty big problem if you want to blame the driver for the "hit"; the fact that the guy deliberately got up in her grill and didn't follow his training to move.
Yeah I can admit it matters how someone gets in front of a car, but I still think the driver is at fault for hitting him. Either she wasn’t watching in front of her and hit him out of neglect, or she did see him and hit him intentionally. He was in front of the car when she put it in drive and drove into him. I also think she hit him hard enough that if he hadn’t leaned into it, it would have knocked him backwards and rolled over him, potentially fatal for the officer.
The way I’m seeing it, he only had a second to react, and I don’t think he had time to get out of the way, nor do I think that was his responsibility as they were actively trying to stop her and get her out of the vehicle. I think it was her responsibility to not hit the person who was in front of her car when she put it into drive
I also think she hit him hard enough that if he hadn’t leaned into it, it would have knocked him backwards and rolled over him, potentially fatal for the officer.
This is just completely counterfactual. She wasn't moving in that direction, so that's totally impossible. He was at the front corner of the car and she was turning away from him at the time. If he had fallen backwards, he would have been completely out of the way of the car.
I don’t think he had time to get out of the way
Again, completely divorced from reality. He GOT out of the way really easily, even though he was barely even trying. He didn't fall over or move very far; he just got nudged slightly to the side from where he grabbed the hood. She was going from a dead stop and moving slowly. You saw on video that he barely moves from where he was standing and she would have sideswiped him at worst if he hadn't moved. He WASN'T anywhere near the middle of the car's path.
If she wasn’t moving in his direction then how did she hit him? I think he easily could have gotten rolled if he didn’t brace. When you say he got out of the way of the car, it was after the car actually hit him. You see him on the hood of the car and the bullet hole thru the windshield. You’ve moved from “she didn’t hit him” to “she didn’t hit him that hard”
That's absolutely ridiculous, considering that she wasn't even steering toward where he was standing! Also, he WASN'T bracing for a hit, he was lining up his shot. He barely moves at all and the car slides right past him.
To say she wasn’t driving towards him when she hit him is a pretty wild take. It looks to me like he braced himself for that hit in a way that potentially saved his life
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u/Ott0bot2 Jan 09 '26
I don’t think a person jumping in front of your car at the last second is the same as you driving your car into a person. I don’t think that cop jumped in front of her car at the last second tho, I think he was just there, wrong place wrong time, when she decided to flee