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Police in Vancouver Arrest Man for Nearly Running Down Antifa Protesters With His Tru

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ThoughtEx. said:
Really, because you know of anyone else that would see a crowd of anti-fascists and attempt to drive through them in a truck tricked out in white hate symbols on their way to a free speech rally full of white supremacists? If he's not a neo nazi, what is he? Let's use our context clues here, and call a spade a spade. But hey big surprise to see you here defending a Nazi, as not a Nazi. Which by that I mean I'm not surprised at all.
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Do you have a photo of the truck?
 
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danarhea said:
Reading is fundamental. Or maybe you were just too lazy to read this part of my post....

"but some of the people he assaulted should also be in jail. They started it by throwing rocks.."

And I was going by what the story originally said, that he put his truck in reverse and attempted to hit people, which happens to be assault. Don't blame me. Blame the paper which printed it.
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yet he only did that after they started throwing rocks which is why he was let go of and not charged. self defense is not a crime.
so you evidently didn't read your own story so why is that?
 
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ludin said:
yet he only did that after they started throwing rocks which is why he was let go of and not charged. self defense is not a crime.
so you evidently didn't read your own story so why is that?
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Sorry. Not feeding the troll today.
 
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A big lesson that should be learned is that it is not a wise idea to attack someone in a vehicle. This kind of conduct could result in a driver fearing for his or her life leading to people getting run over.
 
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danarhea said:
Sorry. Not feeding the troll today.
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I am sorry that you can't support your argument.
No trolling you just don't like facts. That is not my problem.
You don't know what trolling is either.
 
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Southern Dad said:
A big lesson that should be learned is that it is not a wise idea to attack someone in a vehicle. This kind of conduct could result in a driver fearing for his or her life leading to people getting run over.
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that would pretty much sum it up.
 
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ThoughtEx. said:
Oh no doubt that will be his defense. It's still terrorism, whether he intended harm or not, he wanted to scare protesters out of protesting.
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Throwing rocks at people can be considered assault with a deadly weapon. Some people use that as a means of execution. If a mob of hateful communists surrounded me and started throwing rocks, I might run them over.
 
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The Mark said:
If someone was throwing rocks and water bottles at my car, I don't think I'd decide it a good idea to run into them.

I mean, the most those are going to do is break glass or dent my car.


Now, if I wasn't expecting such, I might swerve or something at the initial impact, which might make me accidentally run into a crowd if I were near one, but I can't see doing so intentionally.
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If you're surrounded by hateful bigots who intend to do you harm, you might reconsider.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Reginald_Denny
 
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OlNate said:
Hey, Maggie, just a quick question for you... In your scenario, why were you driving at any speed through a protest? This is the part I don't get - not a dig, you know I luvs ya, but why were you there in the first place, in your scenario?
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Why were protestors blocking traffic?
 
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FederalRepublic said:
Throwing rocks at people can be considered assault with a deadly weapon. Some people use that as a means of execution. If a mob of hateful communists surrounded me and started throwing rocks, I might run them over.
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At a person, depending on the size of the rock. This was at a Truck, in the middle of a town. I'm guessing the rocks weren't that large. AS there was a path open before him, and he couldn't discern who threw the rocks and indiscriminately drove backwards into a crowd, that defense just does not hold up.
 
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ThoughtEx. said:
At a person, depending on the size of the rock. This was at a Truck, in the middle of a town. I'm guessing the rocks weren't that large. AS there was a path open before him, and he couldn't discern who threw the rocks and indiscriminately drove backwards into a crowd, that defense just does not hold up.
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The protestors did assault him. He did not assault the protestors. Being in a truck in the middle of a hateful bigoted mob is not a safe place.
 
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danarhea said:
They were behind him. All he had to do was keep going forward and call the police. Yes, he assaulted people with his truck, but some of the people he assaulted should also be in jail. They started it by throwing rocks.
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Seeing as he was past them when they threw, and then he decided to go back deeper into the danger after he was past it.. It takes it from the realm of self defense into vengeance. But its obviously just intimidation vengeance because if he wanted to actually plow them down he would have. So negligence and intimidation.
 
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ThoughtEx. said:
Oh no doubt that will be his defense. It's still terrorism, whether he intended harm or not, he wanted to scare protesters out of protesting.
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Self defense against a terrorist mob is not a crime.
 
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Skeptic Bob said:
Hopefully he was just trying to scare them out of the way and would have stopped before actually hitting them. Either way that will probably be his argument in court.
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Actually, there's a correction at the end of the article, and he wasn't arrested:

Correction: This story originally said the driver of the Silverado was arrested. In fact, he was handcuffed and placed in a patrol car but later released without arrest, according to a Vancouver Police spokeswoman. WW regrets the error.
 
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