Hm, the wildfire arsonist shot to death in San Bernardino rammed the LEOs’ car, too. No obvious illegal-immigration connection there, but it is still an interesting pattern.
Airbag deployment, if they can get the airbag to go off then the cops are not suppose to pursue you at high speed then. It has been happening a lot in urban settings with stolen cars, ram the police car with the back of yours, get the airbag to fire off, and then run away.
Indeed it is an interesting pattern- it is the result of getting their own way for so long in this country that they now feel they are entitled to break our laws, and we should not dare to stop them. Amazing the amount of arrogance is shown in the act of ramming LEO vehicles. We also place so many restrictions on what CBP or other LEO can actually do when dealing w/border crime that smugglers feel they can get away with anything.