John Miller on Renee Good: We Don‘t Know Whether in His ‘Tunnel Vision,’ He Was Focused on Her or the Front of That Vehicle

RUSH EXCERPT:
MILLER: "Only if you‘re looking at it. And we don‘t know whether in his tunnel vision he was focused on her or the front of that vehicle or its direction. But what we do know is the value of this video is it‘s another angle. We came to conclusions, which are now questioned. When we looked at the first video, because we got a second video, this would be a third video, which is instructive in a different way. What do we get out of this? We get three things. One, we get that it‘s not a high tension situation. She‘s smiling and saying, I‘m not mad, and her friend is taunting them, but saying, you know, here‘s our license plate we‘re not wearing.”

BURNETT: “We don‘t change our license plate. By the way, awareness of if you want to come and get us later, go ahead. You know, you have the license number.”

MILLER: “So I mean, tensions at that point are low. As he comes around the car, the officers who pull up in the pickup truck are saying, out of the car, out of the car, they‘re grabbing one door handle, which is locked. She starts to accelerate her her her wife is on the other door handle, which is also locked. And if you look at that video, here it is when we come around to the front of that car. This is a different video. When we come around to the front of that car, which we‘ll do in a minute. You see, if you‘re the agent, his point of view is the car is now moving forward. He unholsters his weapon and you see the car moving towards him. Then you lose sight because the phone goes down as the gun comes up, but you hear an impact. What sounds like an impact which leans towards the officer‘s account, and DHS assertion that the vehicle made contact with him and you hear a groan and simultaneous with that, not separate. You hear these three shots. At the end of the day, the three things they‘re going to have to consider is are they in policy with the agency? Probably not. Were the tactics good? It would have been easier to leave your weapon holster and get out of the way than to end up in this confrontation. But was it legal? Did he feel threatened in the moment he pulled the trigger?"