SO WHAT?? He's using ""forced him to a stop in the roadway" and "forces him off the road" more or less as figures of speech. It has zero relevance to the ultimate outcome of the situation. You seem focused on anything BUT that.
Then maybe everything he's saying (and the uber driver too) is a figure of speech, and we can't take a single part of it as being meaningful.
I wasn't even doubting the uber diver's (legal) innocence until I saw the whole presentation and realised how one-sided it was. As for describing the DECEASED as a goofball, it beggars belief.
You don't seem to understand that if we are seeing a short dash cam clip OUT OF CONTEXT then the story is not as clear cut as you think.
What if, when the truck was alongside, there was a discussion, and the uber driver had every reason to think he was NOT in danger, but only had to clear up a misunderstanding? Then what followed would not be justification for shooting.
The sheriff is just repeating much of what the uber driver is saying without fact checking (eg quoting verbatim "forcing off the road"), and presenting it as confirmed truth. For example, that the truck was tailgating with bright lights on. Was that shown in the dash cam video? Oh no, wait, it was facing the wrong way to show that. No mention was made of a second camera.
Did the uber driver literally say: "Hmm. I wonder who this guy is." as the Sheriff states? I doubt it, THAT certainly sounds figurative. I bet he said something else though. What exactly? We need to know to understand the circumstances and what he really felt at that moment.
And I'm not letting go of that "I say somethin" comment. Is that some kind of Americanism that doesn't translate? Or does it indicate an earlier exchange that we NEED to hear to understand the event fully?
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