her car was stopped, hence no threat. If the cops were able to get the kid out of the car, they could have used other means to subdue her.
That being said, I,like a lot of other people are armchair quarterbacking this from our computers. Maybe there was another threat, either real or perceived, that is unknown to us.
Time will tell....hopefully
I couldn’t discern an exact sequence of events from the video, and I imagine that dealing with a grossly irrational, possibly armed, driver is an chilling and unpredictable experience. Remember, this woman didn’t give a flip for the little soul in the back seat or any other human beings who happened to get in her way. This is one of those sad cases where we probably needed to shoot first and analyze later.