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

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rabbitcaebannog said:
Being in the road does not justify running someone over.
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Not moving and disrupting a drivers safety and ability to leave is certainly a reason for the driver to move forward slowly. Once some pieces of garbage start attacking his car he is justified in getting out of the situation and if some dumb moron doesn't get out of the way that is their flipping fault.
 
rabbitcaebannog said:
The girl who was hit by the car did not jump on the hood.
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Anybody blocking traffic for any reason should be aware of potential cars on the road. Her fault 100%.
 
rabbitcaebannog said:
That's BS. A driver doesn't have a right to hit someone because they were in the road during a protest.
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You aren't reading both of my posts... a driver trying to get out of a dangerous situation caused by protestors in the street is allowed to do what they need to in order to get away and if others want to block them in so that others can continue an attack those others are just as culpable as the attackers themselves...
 
Bodhisattva said:
Not moving and disrupting a drivers safety and ability to leave is certainly a reason for the driver to move forward slowly. Once some pieces of garbage start attacking his car he is justified in getting out of the situation and if some dumb moron doesn't get out of the way that is their flipping fault.
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That sounds borderline sociopathic.
 
Bodhisattva said:
You aren't reading both of my posts... a driver trying to get out of a dangerous situation caused by protestors in the street is allowed to do what they need to in order to get away and if others want to block them in so that others can continue an attack those others are just as culpable as the attackers themselves...
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No, he's not allowed to run them over.
 
rabbitcaebannog said:
That's BS. A driver doesn't have a right to hit someone because they were in the road during a protest.
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You know what you do when a car is moving towards you? Move. MOVE! I don't have any sympathy for people who create dangerous situations and bad things happen to them as a result. The driver may or may not be a "jerk" but if you walk or stand in front of a moving vehicle or jump on the hood then you're an idiot and if you get run over as a result then thats just too bad.
 
rabbitcaebannog said:
That sounds borderline sociopathic.
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You have obviously lived in a sugar coated fairly land your entire life.

No, he's not allowed to run them over.
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You are right. He just has to sit there and let himself get attacked. Of course... :lol:
 
Napoleon said:
You know what you do when a car is moving towards you? Move. MOVE! I don't have any sympathy for people who create dangerous situations and bad things happen to them as a result. The driver may or may not be a "jerk" but if you walk or stand in front of a moving vehicle or jump on the hood then you're an idiot and if you get run over as a result then thats just too bad.
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Again, if people are in the road and you want to get by, you don't have the right to run them over because they did not move. It doesn't work that way.
 
Bodhisattva said:
You have obviously lived in a sugar coated fairly land your entire life.



You are right. He just has to sit there and let himself get attacked. Of course... :lol:
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So, better for him not to get attacked so it's best for him to run over a bunch of people in his way:roll:
 
lizzie said:
No. The sociopaths are those who are determined to keep him there against his will. Those who wish to do him harm, without his having instigated action against them first.
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Um, he did instigate the action first.
 
rabbitcaebannog said:
So, better for him not to get attacked so it's best for him to run over a bunch of people in his way:roll:
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Wait... what? Do you even know what happened? Guy drives down street. People in way. He tries to slowly drive through. People start attacking his car. He sits there. People keep attacking. He drives away hitting some who are blocking him in to be attacked. People chasing him to continue attack. He vacates the area. His fault for hitting people in the street? Seriously...??
 
lizzie said:
No, what I read was that they initiated trying to keep him from moving his vehicle, and after that, was when he hit someone.
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This IS what happened...
 
Bodhisattva said:
This IS what happened...
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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. Other cars were avoiding the crowd but this asswipe decided he was going to go right into the crowd.
 
rabbitcaebannog said:
Again, if people are in the road and you want to get by, you don't have the right to run them over because they did not move. It doesn't work that way.
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You don't have the right to unlawfully assemble in the middle of the road. If I feel threatened by a mob of protestors surrounding my car then I will run over however many it people takes to get out of there and I would be in the right as evident not only by common sense but the fact that this man was not arrested and has not been charged.
 
Napoleon said:
You don't have the right to unlawfully assemble in the middle of the road. If I feel threatened by a mob of protestors surrounding my car then I will run over however many it people takes to get out of there and I would be in the right as evident not only by common sense but the fact that this man was not arrested and has not been charged.
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The prick decided to go through the crowd rather than around them like other cars.
 
rabbitcaebannog said:
That's not good. He should have went around them not into them.
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He had a stopped car directly in front of him, a large mob in front of that car, and traffic flowing around him from behind. Your recommendation would have him backing into traffic to give him the clearance to go around the car in front of him and causing an accident. No, he made the right call and the right assumption that people should and would disperse from an illegal assembly in the road to allow him to get out of the situation.
 
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