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Charlottesville Nazi Guilty of Hate Crime

AmNat said:
There has been no report that the police blocked off the street to vehicular traffic.

Is it your claim that he had originally intended to ram the crowd at slow speed?
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All the streets leading down to the mall were blocked that morning, which has been reported. It’s also true his was the only car on the street at the time. I’m not the one making a claim about his intentions. You are. I’m only pointing out the facts fail to support you.
 
AmNat said:
Killing people known to be members of a protected group does not meet the definition of a hate crime. The victims must be targeted because of real or perceived membership in a protected group. Even granting (for the sake of argument) that Fields intended to kill, there is no legitimate evidence that he was targeting anyone on account of membership in a protected group, as opposed to for their political ideology. The only argument to this effect is that because he previously expressed politically incorrect opinions, such an intent could be inferred. That is not how things are supposed to work in a free country.
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He managed not to hit any of the guys on his side of the demonstration. Funny, that.
 
AmNat said:
There has been no report that the police blocked off the street to vehicular traffic.

Is it your claim that he had originally intended to ram the crowd at slow speed?
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To address the question directly, since the crowd filled the intersection and he was a short distance away heading straight at it, what else could have been his attention.
 
AmNat said:
There is ample evidence that he was in fear for his life (from all the people attacking his car with bats and the like). You could make the case that he responded negligently or recklessly, and I'd have no problem with a manslaughter charge, but there's no evidence that he intended to kill or injure anyone.

Even if it were granted that he had an intent to kill, there's literally no indication that he targeted anyone because of their membership in a protected group (political activism/ideology is not a protected group), which is the standard for a hate crime charge.

The only reason he's been charged with murder, and especially hate-crime-murder, is because he's a political dissident. If a left-winger had been surrounded by a group of angry white nationalists who attacked his car, and had hit the gas in response and one of them died, he wouldn't be facing these charges (in fact, none of the left-wingers who committed acts of violence in Charlottesville have faced felony jail time).
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In fear of his life in a steel box? He drove away and then drove back, killing the girl in the process, and injuring 35 others. He is a cowardly little Nazi wretch who deserves everything he gets. Did anyone else in Charlottesville commit murder at that demonstration? This is a good time to stop digging that hole before it caves in on you.
"The driver of the car is a murderer, and what he did is a horrible, horrible inexcusable thing" Donald J. Trump (and about the only truth ever to come out of his yap).
Video shows what happened in Charlottesville - CNN Video
 
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JackA said:
To address the question directly, since the crowd filled the intersection and he was a short distance away heading straight at it, what else could have been his attention.
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To get home? He had put his home address as his destination in Google Maps.

That he was driving at slow speed indicates an intention to simply pass through the crowd. It makes no sense whatsoever that he would intend to run people down at low speed. It also makes no sense, if he intended to kill or injure, that he would ram another vehicle instead of attacking pedestrians directly (for example, by running people down on the sidewalk as he approached the intersection).
 
AmNat said:
Armed Antifa PROFESSOR Admits to Chasing Charlottesville Driver With Rifle BEFORE DEADLY CRASH!
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I love when people get their news from The Gateway Pundit, which is the most dishonest site on the internet.

You should Google Dwayne Dixon's testimony on that. His testimony put that POS away.

Dwayne Dixon testified that he saw a gray "muscle car" drive by several times. He said he yelled "Get the (expletive) out of here" at the car while wearing his gun slung over his shoulder. He testified that he could not see the driver because the car had tinted windows. Dixon has claimed previously that he used his gun to scare off a man he believes was Fields.

Dixon said he believes that was about 30 minutes to an hour before Fields slammed into the group with his car.

Jury set to deliberate murder case in Charlottesville fatal car ramming | WICS
 
I certainly give a lot of credence to the details of a self-admitted violent ideologue.
 
AmNat said:
I certainly give a lot of credence to the details of a self-admitted violent ideologue.
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So do I, which is why I took the convicted killer at his word when he pled guilty. That's who you were talking about right, seeing he's the only one in this story convicted of committing acts of violence?
 
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