text: When a criminal is escaping and he is headed toward you armed with a vehicle. Whether he intent to hit you with that vehicle is utterly immaterial. Deadly force can be use to deter such an escape. If a jay walker is running from a police, probably not. Mitchell Andrew, this sort of situation should be determined by case by case basis. You seem to relied on "what if" as that is some sort of solution. Neither you or I were there so you shouldn't judge the LEOs. I am only relating to the information available. Is Mr. Tupper a relation of yours??