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

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There's a sidewalk, right there. Perfectly fine place for protest that doesn't endanger drivers or protesters.
 
The driver of that car is a jerk. The other cars were driving around the crowd with no problem, but he/she was determined to drive right through them. Yes, the protesters were blocking the road, but that's no excuse to drive into them and over the woman's legs.

Two wrongs don't make a right. The protesters weren't hurting anyone, the driver did.
 
Gill said:
The driver of that car is a jerk. The other cars were driving around the crowd with no problem, but he/she was determined to drive right through them. Yes, the protesters were blocking the road, but that's no excuse to drive into them and over the woman's legs.

Two wrongs don't make a right. The protesters weren't hurting anyone, the driver did.
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Keep in mind that he drove OVER the woman's legs after the mob rushed the car. At that point you have to worry about the safety of yourself and the passengers. And I'm sorry, if it's a choice of some stranger who shouldn't be there in the first place, or my child sitting in the back, well **** the woman. Really though, I blame the police because this should of been cordoned off right?
 
Fiddytree said:
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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Most places outside of Ferguson have been civilized and peaceful though. I mean, Oakland is the exception last night where things did get out of control. But that's California for ya.
 
MarineTpartier said:
Maybe dude heard McDonalds was offering the McRib again
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Blocking major intersections is not "peaceful protest".

Was the person in the Subaru on the way to the hospital? Could there have been a pregnant woman or a stroke victim in the passenger's seat?
 
rocket88 said:
Lets face it, even if it was intentional this driver would have the full-throated support of at least one righttard.
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Oh, I believe it WAS intentional... it was intentionally to avoid this:



And when an angry crowd is surrounding your car (a felony) and beating on it you are well within your rights to assume that the end result, if you hang around, would be no different than that truck driver.

The driver shouldn't be required to assume a peaceful outcome when the crowd was not peaceful.
 
Hamster Buddha said:
Keep in mind that he drove OVER the woman's legs after the mob rushed the car. At that point you have to worry about the safety of yourself and the passengers. And I'm sorry, if it's a choice of some stranger who shouldn't be there in the first place, or my child sitting in the back, well **** the woman. Really though, I blame the police because this should of been cordoned off right?
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He shouldn't have been in the middle of them to begin with. He put himself and his hypothetical child in danger... not to mention the woman.
 
VanceMack said:
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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I do not want to live in his world.

I hope he does not have kids.
 
Gill said:
He shouldn't have been in the middle of them to begin with. He put himself and his hypothetical child in danger... not to mention the woman.
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I'm not following.

You're saying that the driver shouldn't have taken his car onto a public roadway?

Or...?
 
soot said:
I'm not following.

You're saying that the driver shouldn't have taken his car onto a public roadway?

Or...?
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I'm saying he should have turned left like all the other drivers were doing. He was a fool to drive into the crowd. He put himself and all the people in the crowd in danger.

While they should not have been blocking the road, he exacerbated the problem.
 
From the helicopter view it shows that there were cars going around the rioters. This driver did indeed "plow through" the protesters because you can clearly see other cars going around the protesters.
 
Gill said:
I'm saying he should have turned left like all the other drivers were doing. He was a fool to drive into the crowd. He put himself and all the people in the crowd in danger.

While they should not have been blocking the road, he exacerbated the problem.
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That's what I saw too. He did indeed "plow through" when he didn't have to.
 
Gill said:
I'm saying he should have turned left like all the other drivers were doing. He was a fool to drive into the crowd. He put himself and all the people in the crowd in danger.

While they should not have been blocking the road, he exacerbated the problem.
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I guess that's reasonable enough.

I don't know the whole story here, so I can't really say what I would have done in his situation.

At the end of the day I guess it took a whole bunch of fools being all foolhardy for things to work out the way that they did.

I hope the kid that got hit recovers fully, but I can't really lay blame at the feet of the driver.
 
I watched last night as a bunch of entitled white kids tried to block freeways with moving traffic in Portland. I was very surprised none got hurt and that they didn't cause a pile up. If you're willfully standing in the middle of the street in order to block traffic illegally, like the lowly squirrel, you should be fair game to become another one of Flat Stanley's pets.
 
Here is soe video that seems to show the entire incident:

[CCTV] Driver Plows into Ferguson Protest Crowd in Minneapolis || car drags woman in protests - YouTube

I blame the protestors and the driver both. The driver for beginning to go through in the first place and the protestors for blocking off the street as they did. Then the protestors jumping on his car (there are at least two that jump on his hood immediately) then swarming the driver causing him to want to get out of there for fear of attack certainly didn't help.
 
clownboy said:
I watched last night as a bunch of entitled white kids tried to block freeways with moving traffic in Portland. I was very surprised none got hurt and that they didn't cause a pile up. If you're willfully standing in the middle of the street in order to block traffic illegally, like the lowly squirrel, you should be fair game to become another one of Flat Stanley's pets.
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When I see people walking in the street where traffic is traveling, when there is a sidewalk they can use, I figure it is because they want to die.
 
Mason66 said:
When I see people walking in the street where traffic is traveling, when there is a sidewalk they can use, I figure it is because they want to die.
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And you know they are thinking, it'll never happen to me.
 
Hehe, I love it! I'd do the same thing if my family was in the car and these morons where attacking my car. I'd go much faster though.

Tim-
 
Mason66 said:
When I see people walking in the street where traffic is traveling, when there is a sidewalk they can use, I figure it is because they want to die.
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People like Michael Brown ??
 
clownboy said:
I watched last night as a bunch of entitled white kids tried to block freeways with moving traffic in Portland. I was very surprised none got hurt and that they didn't cause a pile up. If you're willfully standing in the middle of the street in order to block traffic illegally, like the lowly squirrel, you should be fair game to become another one of Flat Stanley's pets.
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I have a suspicion most are frustrated Occupiers, hoping to become relevant.
 
Mason66 said:
I don't live in the US so you can keep your racist bull**** to yourself.
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Bwaa Haaa, care to explain how that simple comment is "racist" ??

You're too funny. Ever hear the fairy tale about the little boy that cried wolf ??
 
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