This obsession with intent is retarded. Law and order can't be based on the unfalsifiable feelings of people. It's a straight road to bad faith actors being permanently innocent.

She was given a lawful order to stop. She disobeyed, recklessly tried to flee in her vehicle, and literally hit a federal officer. Minnesota courts have ruled that a vehicle is a deadly weapon in such situations, so the officer was perfectly within his rights to defend himself using deadly force.

Trying to suss out her "intentions" is idiotic. She could have a written sign on top of the car saying "I'm not trying to harm anyone", and that wouldn't change the reality of what she did.

Seriously, we need to get away from this "empathetic" bullshit that has infested our justice system. For one, it's a standard that is only ever applied to one side; no one on the left ever cares about a conservative criminal's "intentions". For two, we're in a cold civil war between people who hate each other. No one believes the other side's self-reported "emotion data".

I think leftists are pathologically dishonest because they don't believe in objective reality. Why would I permit their subjective testimony (aka lies) to mitigate circumstances in their favor? If society is going to mediate conflicts between groups who have every reason to lie about each other, then emperical evidence is all that matters.