The shooter could see that a cop was working on the windows with a non-lethal weapon, and that the other cop was behind and prepared, so for him to run up and start shooting into the fleeing car, seems reckless and panicky, a leap into mass killing escalation, on a minivan full of kids and their (whacked out) mom.
As someone from the old “yes, sir” school, where you always treated the cop with respect once you were caught or busted, I am amazed at the total indifference of the mother and teen son, to the authority of police and procedure as they are performing a stop.
It is one thing to stand up for your rights, to argue your case when the situation calms down, but that isn’t what they were doing, they were just too self important to be bothered with all this law and guns, and arrest, and fleeing, and felony resist, etc., they seemed to have no idea of the context of their actions and aggression.
A family in a min-van, but kind of feral and primitive.
I kinda think Andy shouldn’t have given his Barney Fifes their bullet.