No, I'm not accepting that claim at all, just suggesting that the car could have been travelling faster, hit some protesters and slowed before it hit one of the other cars.
Whatever speed it hit was fast enough on the way in and out to kill people.
You're so close to being reasonable here, I want to see if you can get all the way there.
Any review of the videos which show the collision evidence that: 1) a woman who was standing immediately in front of the
struck car was hit by the Charger (the colliding car) and ended up on the roof of the struck car. Thankfully, and fortunately, she was not seriously injured. There is no video evidence that anyone else was struck in the direct path of the Charger. It is possible that some people were grazed by the front side panels of the Charger and knocked to the side as a result. It is difficult to tell the difference in the video between those who jumped to the side to avoid the car, and those who were knocked to the side. These collisions with protesters could not account for any significant reduction of speed prior to impact.. 2) any acceleration of the car took place over a very short distance (30-40 feet). That distance of acceleration, combined with the absence of tire marks that would be present with rapid acceleration, is consistent with a speed of less than 28 mph.
Now, to your point, it is possible to injure a pedestrian with a vehicle at a very slow speed. I once was involved in a traffic accident where one of the other cars involved hit a pedestrian on the sidewalk at what must have been less than 15 kmh. Despite the low speed, the pedestrian was thrown up into the air onto the roof of another car. Fortunately, that person's only injuries were minor bruises and cuts.
Also, to avoid a needless retort, clearly people were injured by the reversal of the Charger. Of course, a number of these people also attacked the car following the collision and before it reversed.
However, we're just talking about the accuracy of the police report that the Charger was travelling at a "high rate of speed". In fact, it would appear that the Charger was travelling at less than 28 mph at the point of impact, and that point of impact was nanoseconds after it struck the only protester in its direct path. Maybe the police report should have said, instead "at an unsafe rate of speed". That would at least be arguable.