Point stands, if you are in a vehicle chase with police - you are armed. Period. You have a 4000lb bullet capable of intentional and unintentional death. If they got him out of the car and then shot him, that will indeed be a different thing.

In my research for this, the number of times I heard and read “he was expected to be a father in months” was over the top. The media has an angle to push, and like you said, no one has even seen the video yet.