Based on what cops are taught: don't let suspects get back into the vehicle I think the jury was forced into the decision they made.
The Dinkheller video a lot of cops watch in the Academy:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/bearin...s-return-vehicles-murder-kyle-dinkheller/amp/
I think the jury will explain as much once the mushroom cloud clears.
That being said, I think she should have gone hands on with the guy. She had backup (another cop tazed him at the same time she shot the guy). I do think her size and gender contributed to her not going hands on and resorting to lethal force to stop a perceived threat. I don't have her stats, but Crutcher is listed at 6ft 4, 240 lbs, and I doubt she was anywhere near his size. I think the "big scarey black guy" got shot by the "physically and mentally unequipped white female cop." I don't think it should have gone down the way it did.