Minnesota is a duty to retreat State, so someone in imminent danger is legally required to remove themselves before we resorting to violence. if this is invoked, the question becomes "could the officer have reasonably gotten out of the way when the car started accelerating?" (obviously the answer is no, but this is a likely angle they're going to play in court)

I feel if it ever actually goes to court, the defense needs to lean hard on the fact that if she had jerked the steering wheel left at any point in that acceleration, that officer was going under the wheels. They need to really spell out the justification for why dodging and disabling her simultaneously was safer than just dodging, with lego bricks and play-doh visual aids to help them get it.

Because with everything else going on in that state I worry there's too many Minnesotans with an IQ equivalent to the room temp when the heating's broken, and they won't be able to figure that out themselves.