“He had just started the car.
After being told, in effect, to get out.”
Yes, he did do that.
And then the officer murdered him.
Those two statements are not mutually exclusive.
Murder requires premeditation. There’s no evidence of that.
What we do have is an incident of escalating revelation of crimes, and corresponding escalating tension.
Driver was about to flee, an action which understandably prompts a cop into action against the suspect.
I’ll grant he likely over-reacted. But it wasn’t “murder”. Manslaughter, yeah, overreaction by someone who very well perhaps shouldn’t have been a cop, yeah, but not murder.