IDK. There is no way a piece of lumber is gonna burn like that without some sort of accelerant and he shoved it right at the cop and it set the cop car on fire immediately. What if the cop couldn't get out of the car for some reason? Definitely self defense, plus the guy wasn't shot by the cop but was arrested by other officers. Who's to say the cop didn't just fire his weapon to try to scare the suspect into stopping.