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srothstein wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 8:50 am This does not look defensible to me, but there is another factor that may make it so. I can see where reaching into the car is an attack, especially if you don't know what he is reaching for. Is he going to hit the driver, poke him (which I don't understand but is possible), strangle him, or punch him?. Given that, then it is possible that this is when the driver pulled his weapon and made the decision to fire. Studies at the Force Science Institute show that once your mind makes that decision, it is hard to stop the body from acting. The man sees the gun coming up and reacts by pulling back butt he driver is already raising the gun to fire. By the time his mind realizes the man is pulling back and breaking away, his hand has brought up the gun and is firing. This makes it look worse on the video than it was at the time the driver decided to shoot.

One of the premises of the studies was to see why police officers were shooting people in the back when they said they were attacking. Videos of several people were made and show this delay in reaction time. It is a very interesting field of study to me, especially the action and reaction time parts. We all already know that action beats reaction but what about reacting to the reaction?