Franklin Zimring quoted in The Oakland Tribune, May 15, 2013
Whether Troche was justified in shooting at the car depends on what kind of risk the officer and his passenger faced, said Franklin Zimring, UC Berkeley School of Law professor. Because there was only one way out of the parking lot, it could be argued that Pakman was trying to leave, not strike the officer, Zimring said. “I wouldn’t want to be the Police Department’s liability insurer, but the question of sequence and the officer’s perceptions are going to be the issue,” he said.