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

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A vehicle plowed through a group of demonstrators in Minneapolis Tuesday afternoon during a march and rally in the wake of a Missouri grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer for fatally shooting a black teenager.

A solidarity rally and march for Michael Brown, who was killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, was planned Tuesday near the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct headquarters at Lake Street and Minnehaha Avenue S.

A Star Tribune reporter who is at the rally says that witnesses say the vehicle started honking at protesters blocking the intersection before running down a woman around the start of the rally at 4:30 p.m.

In video from KSTP’s Chopper 5, the involved vehicle goes around another stopped car and into the crowd as other vehicles go around the crowd. People appear to get on the hood of the car as it pushes its way through the crowd and it hits and appears to run over the legs of a demonstrator.

Video footage of the incident in the link. Cant say I blame the driver for fleeing the mob.
 
Video footage of the incident in the link. Cant say I blame the driver for fleeing the mob.

I really hate how the article frames the story. When I first heard those words "plowed through a group", I assumed that someone came streaking in out of nowhere and ran over a bunch of people. Instead this car drives forward and hits someone, knocking her over. At that point everyone rushes the car and starts banging on it. It's doubtful that the driver even know of the woman underneath the car. I don't blame him for putting the pedal to the medal and fleeing the area. It's not like he had the option of getting out of the car.
 
I really hate how the article frames the story. When I first heard those words "plowed through a group", I assumed that someone came streaking in out of nowhere and ran over a bunch of people. Instead this car drives forward and hits someone, knocking her over. At that point everyone rushes the car and starts banging on it. It's doubtful that the driver even know of the woman underneath the car. I don't blame him for putting the pedal to the medal and fleeing the area. It's not like he had the option of getting out of the car.

Exactly. The on-site reporter made it sound like it was intentional. Seems to me like he took a turn onto the street, and some protestors stopped him and tried to keep him there by sitting on the hood of his car. The rest is in the video and doesn't exactly jive with what the reporter claimed.
 
It looked like a scene from a zombie movie.
 
Exactly. The on-site reporter made it sound like it was intentional. Seems to me like he took a turn onto the street, and some protestors stopped him and tried to keep him there by sitting on the hood of his car. The rest is in the video and doesn't exactly jive with what the reporter claimed.

Another question that I didn't see answered in the article, is don't police usually block off areas where protests are happening to prevent such events from occurring?
 
I really hate how the article frames the story. When I first heard those words "plowed through a group", I assumed that someone came streaking in out of nowhere and ran over a bunch of people. Instead this car drives forward and hits someone, knocking her over. At that point everyone rushes the car and starts banging on it. It's doubtful that the driver even know of the woman underneath the car. I don't blame him for putting the pedal to the medal and fleeing the area. It's not like he had the option of getting out of the car.

I don't think the video shows enough to determine how it started to be honest with you. There's no 'before bodies contacted the vehicle' to see so maybe they jumped on the hood - maybe he ran into them intentionally.
 
I don't think the video shows enough to determine how it started to be honest with you. There's no 'before bodies contacted the vehicle' to see so maybe they jumped on the hood - maybe he ran into them intentionally.

I don't think he intended to run over anyone, I mean if that was the case, then why stop when he did and let the protesters rush the car and bang on the windows?
 
Maybe dude heard McDonalds was offering the McRib again
 
It appears the car was already beat up when the driver tried to get away (windshield appears broken and roof is dented. Pure speculation, but it looks like a bunch of protesters started jumping on the car, driver panicked, protester got ran over.
 
Like with Michael Brown these idiots put themselves in harms way, creating a life threatening situation for an innocent person, and then blame that person when things go badly.
 
I don't think he intended to run over anyone, I mean if that was the case, then why stop when he did and let the protesters rush the car and bang on the windows?

Hard to say - I don't think we can see enough to determine intent, etc. That's what the cops are there for.
 
They better be glad the driver didn't go full Tony Stewart on all of them.
 
Hard to say - I don't think we can see enough to determine intent, etc. That's what the cops are there for.

Lets face it, even if it was intentional this driver would have the full-throated support of at least one righttard.
 
Well I see that Stalin's 'useful idiots' are swarming the streets all over the country, tying up traffic on Thanksgiving weekend, and terrorizing law abiding citizens like this guy......pathetic really. Mostly a bunch of 'idealistic' kids who think they are part of 'something'. Not one of them could tell you the facts of the case, just like in the Trayvon Martin situation.
 
Seems that one woman was treated for minor injuries. If it was intentional, he didn't do a very good job. I'm guessing it was an Asia behind the wheel. No real interest in the Michael Brown case. Then again, most of the protesters really don't care about Michael Brown either.
 
Then again, most of the protesters really don't care about Michael Brown either.

Pretty much. If you watch the protests in NYC you'll see and hear some familiar things. They seem to be driven by former Occupy protestors who are trying to be relevant again and theres a smattering of people in Guy Fawkes masks. I'd say it stopped being about Michael Brown outside the Ferguson city limits.
 
Again: blocking traffic and screwing with people's cars makes ordinarily safe situations dangerous. I suppose we're all supposed to trust that a mob of angry people won't be a danger to you and that we should wait for the massive crowd to arbitrarily decide they're done being somewhere with their stupid demonstration before the rest of us can go about our daily lives.

This entitled mob mentality is self-destructive. I have half sympathy for the woman involved.
 
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Pretty much. If you watch the protests in NYC you'll see and hear some familiar things. They seem to be driven by former Occupy protestors who are trying to be relevant again and theres a smattering of people in Guy Fawkes masks. I'd say it stopped being about Michael Brown outside the Ferguson city limits.

It can be about Brown (or rather, police tactics and involvement with African Americans) outside Ferguson, but the idea that we should glorify thousands of people who go out of their way to screw with everyone else's day (and demonstrate their willingness to make everyone else feel endangered) is just beyond me.

I agree. Only assholes wear Guy Fawkes masks.
 
Another question that I didn't see answered in the article, is don't police usually block off areas where protests are happening to prevent such events from occurring?

That would be the sensible thing to do, but right now many places across the country are letting these assholes walk wherever the hell they want for however long they want (perhaps because they can't immediately stop it to begin with). All the meanwhile some liberals are praising that as some sort of demonstration of how civilized they are.
 
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Video footage of the incident in the link. Cant say I blame the driver for fleeing the mob.
I bet that car had a high-capacity fuel tank and a military-style 4-wheel drive. I've had enough with all you car-fetishists. We tried permits with training, it has failed. We need to pass a common sense Assault-Car Ban immediately! Leave driving to trained professionals! Private ownership of cars is over! If you need a ride, call a taxi.
 
I really hate how the article frames the story. When I first heard those words "plowed through a group", I assumed that someone came streaking in out of nowhere and ran over a bunch of people. Instead this car drives forward and hits someone, knocking her over. At that point everyone rushes the car and starts banging on it. It's doubtful that the driver even know of the woman underneath the car. I don't blame him for putting the pedal to the medal and fleeing the area. It's not like he had the option of getting out of the car.
Agreed. This is what "plowed through a group" means: NSFW VIDEO: Car Plows Into Group of Bikers - YouTube

The car in OP's video just sort of bumped into a few people and stopped before hurting anyone, then carefully fled the crowed.
 
Agreed. This is what "plowed through a group" means: NSFW VIDEO: Car Plows Into Group of Bikers - YouTube

The car in OP's video just sort of bumped into a few people and stopped before hurting anyone, then carefully fled the crowed.

Just sort of bumped into a few people?

If a black man did that most conservatives would support the shooting of the driver and claim self defense
 
The woman's defense, Reginald Denny.

To quote at least one poster in this thread, there are plenty of 'lefttards' that would have excused Reginald Denny's attackers and said he should have taken what he had coming to him like a man.

Speaking of which....

“Not once did I consider our attackers to be ‘bad people.’ I trust that they weren’t trying to hurt me. In fact, if they knew me, I bet they’d think I was okay,” wrote Friedfeld in an editorial featured in The Hoya, the university’s newspaper. “The fact that these two kids, who appeared younger than I, have even had to entertain these questions suggests their universes are light years away from mine.”

Friedfeld claims it is the pronounced inequality gap in Washington, D.C. that has fueled these types of crimes. He also says that as a middle-class man, he does not have the right to judge his muggers.

“Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege, surrounded by million-dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education, to condemn these young men as ‘thugs?’” asks Friedfeld. “It’s precisely this kind of ‘otherization’ that fuels the problem.”

Police also aren’t the solution to the problem, Friedfeld argues.

“If we ever want opportunistic crime to end, we should look at ourselves first. Simply amplifying police presence will not solve the issue. Police protect us by keeping those ‘bad people’ out of our neighborhood, and I’m grateful for it. And yet, I realize it’s self-serving and doesn’t actually fix anything.”

Friedfeld suggests that the “privileged” adapt to normalized crime, until the wrongs of the past are righted.

“The millennial generation is taking over the reins of the world, and thus we are presented with a wonderful opportunity to right some of the wrongs of the past,” writes Friedfeld. “Until we do so, we should get comfortable with sporadic muggings and break-ins. I can hardly blame them. The cards are all in our hands, and we’re not playing them.”

Student mugged, says he deserved it because of his 'privilege'
 
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