screen shot of the ICE thug proves it was not justified and was murder

[Ms. Toad]

63. I'm not making excuses.

I am trying to avoid inflammatory rhetoric on our side. It isn't helpful, regardless of which side is using it.

He should have been focusing on ensuring his safety and the safety of others around him. As to his own safety - you don't walk in front of a car with a driver in it. That is never safe. That was his choice to expose himself to that danger. It was his choice to focus more on preventing her from leaving than on the safety of others who might be hit by his gun - OR - by the car when he killed the driver. There is no question but which he created the circumstances which put him in whatever risk he was in.

That said, once he made those stupid decisions, an officer with a gun drawn is not going to be looking down at the tires to know which way they are turned. And if you look at more than just these freeze frames - to the ones fractions of seconds earlier - at the time he had to make the decision to pull the trigger - it is a much closer call as to the direction the tires were pointed.

And certainly, there is no justification for continuing to fire into the open window of the car as it passed him.

It doesn't mean I like it - but as an attorney, it isn't just a matter of looking at the direction the wheels are turned at the moment he fired the first shot and determining that because we can see the direction the wheels were turned in a freeze frame analysis that he would have known that.