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Car plows through protesters during Ferguson rally in south Minneapolis [W:349]

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As a NYer, I have been in the middle of busy intersections hundreds of times. Never got hit by a car so why should I expect to get hit by a car?

New York is probably not comparable to any other big city, let alone regular city... not to mention the analogy is not valid.
 
You not agreeing with his reason does not mean that he does not have a valid reason. As I pointed out and you have ignored... driving through the crowd is not illegal.

Unless there was an emergency, there is no valid reason to drive into a crowd of people.
 
It wasn't a dangerous situation. They were there in plain sight of all the drivers.

Walking into the road is always dangerous unless the police have cordoned off by officials...
 
A comparable situation to this is that near where I used to work people would decide to protest right in the middle of a road that went through the woods where street lights are no where to be found and sunlight struggles to reach. They would start their protest when it was still dark out well before the sun came up right around a sharp corner that you couldn't see around. They could have easily been killed and honestly I'm amazed I didn't hear of any stories of them being run over.

These people were in daylight and there was a large group of them making it impossible not to see them protesting. All other cars did the right thing by passing to the left. This guy felt entitled to drive through them.
 
Unless there was an emergency, there is no valid reason to drive into a crowd of people.

Yes there is... to get to where you want to go. You disagreeing does not make it fact.
 
These people were in daylight and there was a large group of them making it impossible not to see them protesting. All other cars did the right thing by passing to the left. This guy felt entitled to drive through them.

The point is roads are meant for cars, not for people standing around in the street. It's dangerous to decide to stand around on the street protesting whatever your cause might be. We have sidewalks for people to stand around on. Protest on the sidewalk.
 
Getting out of bed in the morning is dangerous, but it doesn't give anyone license to hit me with their car.

If I'm driving down the road I don't expect to see a group of people standing around blocking my path.
 
The point is roads are meant for cars, not for people standing around in the street. It's dangerous to decide to stand around on the street protesting whatever your cause might be. We have sidewalks for people to stand around on. Protest on the sidewalk.

That does not justify a man driving directly into a crowd of people because he needed to get to his destination.
 
AFAIK, hitting people with you car is illegal in any city if it's avoidable.

Nice deflection.... standing in the road is not smart/.
 
Getting out of bed in the morning is dangerous, but it doesn't give anyone license to hit me with their car.

:lol: That is funny...

that is not an emergency

Show the legal code that states you have to have an emergency... thanks.
 
The point is roads are meant for cars, not for people standing around in the street. It's dangerous to decide to stand around on the street protesting whatever your cause might be. We have sidewalks for people to stand around on. Protest on the sidewalk.

Stop with the common sense already!
 
Neither is hitting people with your car when it can be avoided.

Right... that is why we have roads and side walks. Why didn't your buddies stay on the side walk then?
 
There was no sense there. The roads are not meant for the exclusive use of cars and cars are not meant to run into people.

At various points they are for the exclusive use of cars and pans are not meant to be used to kill people either...
 
Actually, it is illegal.

Show the code that driving slowly through a crowd is illegal because I am certainly guilty, as are untold thousands of others. Thanks...
 
Perhaps... but what about people ignoring the facts like you said to sangha? Don't like admitting a glaring contradiction?

I stated that there was another way he could go. The fact he was the only motorist that day that decided to drive into the crowd either makes him stupid or a jerk. I'm not sure which one. Your point was they were in the road so they deserved it. How is that a glaring contradiction?
 
I stated that there was another way he could go.

So what?

The fact he was the only motorist that day that decided to drive into the crowd either makes him stupid or a jerk. I'm not sure which one.

False Dilemma: Logical Fallacies» False Dilemma / Bifurcation Fallacy

Your point was they were in the road so they deserved it. How is that a glaring contradiction?

I never once said that they deserved it. Do not distort what I said. I said to counter your point, essentially, "What do you expect when you are in the road?"

Originally Posted by sangha
No one tried to damage his car until *after* he ran into a few of them

Originally Posted by Rabbit
And that point is being conveniently missed.

I countered with the fact that nobody was in danger of being hit by a car until *after* they stepped into the raod
 
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