R.I.P. Renee Good and my condolences to your wife and children. I hope the agents involved are held accountable.
MOO but I view the shooting as unjustified. The officers escalated the situation and made the scene more chaotic by pulling on the door handle, one agent putting his arm through the open window to seemingly unlock the door manually and agents confusingly yelling at her at the same time to both get out of the car and drive away. Considering her tires were facing towards the right after she reversed her vehicle, I don’t believe she had any intention of hitting Agent Ross.
I think instead due to the chaos going on and an agents arm appearing through the window of the car distracted Good and understandably she tried to drive away, or at least get away from the agent trying to unlock her door. She might not have even seen Agent Ross standing in front of her car before she pulled off considering it took him less than a second to step in front of it and the other agent’s movements were distracting. JMO
I also don’t understand why Agent Ross would take the risk to move and stand in the pathway of a moving vehicle, even if it is going in reverse, considering how quickly how quickly, as he himself experienced, a driver can just choose to speed off instead and end up not avoiding hitting anything in their path as they are driving too fast. His decision to move in front of the car during all that chaos contributed more than any Good made in terms of putting his safety and well-being at risk IMO.
Additionally, the last two shots appear to have gone through Good’s driver side window when the agent was to the side of the vehicle and angled away from it. Can those last two shots be justified if he was not in danger of getting hit at the time they were fired?
Also, IMO, Agent Ross was standing too close to Good’s car that shooting the driver would not have prevented him from getting hit as the vehicle would have still been in motion even if the driver was incapacitated.
This is just my speculation/opinion
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