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I'm defending anything that she did. I just don't think it's relevant.
Standard practice would be to approach the driver's side window and politely ask her to step out of the car. Even arresting her was not reasonable. She was blocking a lane of traffic. It's not a big deal. Just give her a ticket.
I'm not saying any of this is legally necessary, but they should have been more tactful about the whole thing. There are a lot of videos of ICE going around where they are unnecessarily aggressive with people. That is naturally going to make situations like these more dangerous.
But regardless of what they were trying to accomplish with her, no, it is absolutely a stupid idea to stand in front of the car. That accomplishes nothing. The only reason one could give for doing that would be to prevent her from leaving. But that's only reasonably if you are highly confident that she's not going to run you over, which completely undermines any self-defence claim. And even in that case, police officers are told not to do that because it's dangerous.
I don't really understand what point you're trying to make. That's absolutely a preferrable outcome than what happened. So are you saying that it's better they kill her than let her get away? It isn't legal for them to do that, as frustrating as it may seem. Minnesota does not have the death penalty for evading arrest.
So, while I don't think that they needed to approach from ten feet away and do nothing when she fled, if you genuinely think that and killing her were the only two options, I don't see how that justifies killing her.
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