Under threat, self defense prevails, meaning “shoot until there is no longer a t

Under threat, self defense prevails, meaning “shoot until there is no longer a threat”.

She should have obeyed the officers, put the car in park, exited the vehicle, and submitted to arrest.

Instead she resisted arrest, sought to escape, and used her vehicle as a deadly weapon.

You are, as is common, making the mistake that people under stress in single-second windows have time for contemplation rather than reaction. They don’t.

He reacted appropriately.

She did not.

She was a belligerent activist engaging in obstruction of justice, resisting arrest, seeking to flee, and threatening an officer with a vehicle, which is under law, a deadly weapon.

In the one to two seconds he had to react, he did, in self defense.