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The first sentence of your analysis is a mischaracterization.
The agent is hit in such a way that “to the left of the SUV” is a mischaracterization, as his torso makes contact with the left of the car. He is hit by the car. Thus he is not “to the left of the SUV”, but in its path. More to the point, the only consideration is what the officer reasonably believed would happen and the actual direction of the car’s tire at the moment of shot is immaterial, because self-defense is in the reasonable eyes of the reasonable beholder. Our officer had only one second to respond to the speedy change of tire direction. It’s one second between “absolutely going to hit me dead on” and the shot. And it is half a second between “still definitely going to hit me and run me over” and the shot. Because she changes the direction of the steering wheel that quickly. The average person’s raw reaction time is .25 seconds, and the time it takes to calculate whether a car is going to run you over while you hold a gun, a phone, and are surveying the driver’s car is more than .75 seconds or .25 seconds (depending on how badly you want to be hit by a vehicle).
I created an imgur album of three still images from the video above. The first image is before the officer realizes the car is coming, the second is right before impact, and the third is how far he was displaced by the car. The middle red dot shows the distance of the officer’s torso from the car from a static parked park to his left, and the right-most red dot shows his feet placement. https://imgur.com/a/cM5z4Xc
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