She panicked because the Gestapo had decided to point their guns at her. She did stop, but if you look when they ran up to her car pointing guns at her she panicked and tried to drive away. Obviously there is no way in hell should could have gotten away so it tells me she panicked. Hope and change did not work out for her.
Leaving Fort Leavenworth, KS one weekend, my OCS buddies and I were pulled over by 15-20 KCMO police cars. We had about 4 guns in each of our faces. It was surreal, and was just like the final scene in "The Blues Brothers"....anyways, we froze and didnt panic. We heard someone shouting, "Thats not it, wrong car! It has Missouri plates!".....we got a prompt apology and they were persuing a bank robber that had shot a clerk and killed a woman standing in line driving the exact same car as we were. In addition, we were all white/asian, perps were black.
Anyways, moral of the story: We had guns pointed at us, were searched, we did as we were told, and we did NOT get shot.
This lady cost her her own life. Had I gone all crazy like she did, me and my battle buddies probably would have been killed.
Maybe she panicked and drove off because she was trying to protect her child in the back seat. The fact that they opened fire without knowing whether there was anyone else in the car with her was wrong. She was shot several times, so it's a miracle that the child was uninjured. We were always taught that if we had to fire our weapons, to make damn sure we knew where that bullet would end up. You didn't want to hit any innocent bystanders.