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[W:132]Black Lives Matter protester shot driver in Provo, Utah

So, some details.

Alamosa Attorney Charged With Attempted Murder After Shooting Man Driving Through Protest – CBS Denver

Marshall is accused of shooting Danny Von Pruitt, Jr., 49, during a protest at the corner of Main Street and State Avenue just before 6 p.m. Pruitt, of Canon City, was driving a black Dodge Ram pickup truck westbound through the intersection during a green light, per police documents. Witnesses told police there protesters in the crosswalk ahead of Pruitt’s truck, and that Pruitt came to an almost complete stop before inching forward at the protesters.

As the crowd parted and the truck continued through, one man on its passenger side fired his gun at the driver, into the rear of the truck’s cab. Some of those witnesses named Marshall, while others who did not recognize him provided photos to responding officers that showed Marshall and his wife, both wearing masks and holding signs, at the protest prior to the shooting.
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27 year old defense attorney and more than a little abject lying regarding the circumstances. If it weren't for video from a business across the street, this guy wouldn't have been caught and the driver would still be trying to defend himself from lies about his actions.
 
OpportunityCost said:
You are shown a video where 2 shots were fired at a driver and you are still trying to paint protesters as victims. So I guess I will ask, how many innocent dead people will it take for you to care?
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These Libs will rationalize outright murder from one of their thugs they staunchly support. They don't care.
 
OpportunityCost said:
After he is shot at twice? Did you even watch the video?
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then your position is he did not contact those pedestrians until AFTER shots were fired at him?
 
justabubba said:
then your position is he did not contact those pedestrians until AFTER shots were fired at him?
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Pardon me, if some idiots decide they want to impede traffic by standing in a damn road and **** with other peoples' day just because they feel they need to be heard, I can't really find fault in people reacting when their cars are attacked if they slow down. Every single time someone decides to break out a window, throw something at the car, shoot at it with a gun, they are making it easier legally and logically to be run over.

Because the right to peacefully protest does not extend to interfering with, damaging property, or causing bodily harm to others. Once you do those things you aren't peacefully protesting, you are breaking the law.

Queue the Jim Carrey gif please.....STOP BREAKING THE LAW....you know the rest.
 
OpportunityCost said:
Pardon me, if some idiots decide they want to impede traffic by standing in a damn road and **** with other peoples' day just because they feel they need to be heard, I can't really find fault in people reacting when their cars are attacked if they slow down. Every single time someone decides to break out a window, throw something at the car, shoot at it with a gun, they are making it easier legally and logically to be run over.

Because the right to peacefully protest does not extend to interfering with, damaging property, or causing bodily harm to others. Once you do those things you aren't peacefully protesting, you are breaking the law.

Queue the Jim Carrey gif please.....STOP BREAKING THE LAW....you know the rest.
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you never answered the question. please try again:

did the driver of the vehicle contact the pedestrians with his vehicle before he was shot?
 
The feeling of driving up to a Democrat supported “Black Lives Matter” mob would be like driving up to an ISIS check point.
 
justabubba said:
you never answered the question. please try again:

did the driver of the vehicle contact the pedestrians with his vehicle before he was shot?
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According to the portesters, yes, according to the video? Inconclusive.

What needs to be understood is the more incidents occur where people are threatened, shoot, pulled from cars, have things thrown at their cars, etc when they DO stop for the protesters, the less inclined people will be to stop. The vicious circle has started, it can end by not standing in the road stupidly.
 
OpportunityCost said:
If it becomes a pattern of protesters surrounding vehicles and causing harm to drivers, yes, you can expect people to get run over.

Its already becoming a pattern but gun use on top of it creates no incentive for people to stop if they know their life will be in danger.
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What if it becomes a pattern for wackos to drive their cars through crowds of protestors with intent to maim and kill? Would you expect people to start defending themselves? But wait, that already IS a pattern. I'm sure you just forgot about the vehicular murder in Ferguson and missed the many similar incidents in recent times.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/06/15/cars-ramming-protests/
Protesters across US attacked by cars driven into crowds and men with guns | US news | The Guardian
Car drives into protesters in Portland then speeds away
... let me know if you're still having trouble sympathizing with nervous protesters. I can give you plenty more links. Drivers have all the power in this situation. If a protest is in your way, tough luck, go around. You don't have a right to drive through a crowd, even slowly. Your daily schedule is not more important than people's safety.

That said, in the OP incident I think the shooting was unjustified. Guns do not improve these situations. The the driver survived, the shooter is in custody and justice will be served.
 
Elmo said:
What if it becomes a pattern for wackos to drive their cars through crowds of protestors with intent to maim and kill? Would you expect people to start defending themselves? But wait, that already IS a pattern. I'm sure you just forgot about the vehicular murder in Ferguson and missed the many similar incidents in recent times.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/06/15/cars-ramming-protests/
Protesters across US attacked by cars driven into crowds and men with guns | US news | The Guardian
Car drives into protesters in Portland then speeds away
... let me know if you're still having trouble sympathizing with nervous protesters. I can give you plenty more links. Drivers have all the power in this situation. If a protest is in your way, tough luck, go around. You don't have a right to drive through a crowd, even slowly. Your daily schedule is not more important than people's safety.

That said, in the OP incident I think the shooting was unjustified. Guns do not improve these situations. The the driver survived, the shooter is in custody and justice will be served.
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Nope. At some point ****ing ignorant self absorbed moronic progressives made the conscious decision to **** with everyone's day by blocking traffic. Now that they normalized it, they are damaging vehicles, pulling people from cars and assaulting them, and on and on. The abnormal behavior is blocking traffic and expecting people to cater to your bull**** and risk bodily harm or property damage just by slowing down. This particular brand of stupidity is self correcting. If enough people get hurt, people aren't going to keep stopping.
 
Deuce said:
He said people should kill protesters for the terrible crime of being in the road.
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First, they are not "protesters." They are violent terrorists.
Second, they are violating the law and threatening the lives of motorists.
Lastly, I would love for those terrorist scum to stand in front of me, I would certainly run them over - repeatedly.
 
OpportunityCost said:
Nope. At some point ****ing ignorant self absorbed moronic progressives made the conscious decision to **** with everyone's day by blocking traffic. Now that they normalized it, they are damaging vehicles, pulling people from cars and assaulting them, and on and on. The abnormal behavior is blocking traffic and expecting people to cater to your bull**** and risk bodily harm or property damage just by slowing down. This particular brand of stupidity is self correcting. If enough people get hurt, people aren't going to keep stopping.
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Protesting is not abnormal behavior. It is a cornerstone on which this country is built. It is a foundation for every free democracy in the world. That doesn't change one bit just because it's happening in a public street. Drivers risk absolutely nothing unless they choose to escalate the violence by driving into the protest. There won't be any bodily harm or vehicle damage if you stop the vehicle at a reasonable distance, reverse, and take 5 minutes out of your day to drive around. I'm sure dozens of other drivers managed to figure this out before that guy decided to try his luck continuing forward.

But maybe I'm wasting my time explaining this. You sound like you're just looking for excuses to murder your political opponents. And you probably think you're a patriot too.
 
Have any of you ever had your car surrounded by a mob?

I did once in Newark, New Jersey (wrong exit). I had to hit the gas after they started smacking my vehicles windows. It was scary. Thankfully no injuries to anyone and no damage. But if I had stopped (rather then hit the gas) I probably wouldn’t be typing this post.
 
SCrider said:
Self Defense, the car looked like it was trying to run them over. I thought you supported that kind of ****? only when you feel the shooter is on your team, right.
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They shouldn't have been blocking the street.
 
Elmo said:
Protesting is not abnormal behavior. It is a cornerstone on which this country is built. It is a foundation for every free democracy in the world. That doesn't change one bit just because it's happening in a public street. Drivers risk absolutely nothing unless they choose to escalate the violence by driving into the protest. There won't be any bodily harm or vehicle damage if you stop the vehicle at a reasonable distance, reverse, and take 5 minutes out of your day to drive around. I'm sure dozens of other drivers managed to figure this out before that guy decided to try his luck continuing forward.

But maybe I'm wasting my time explaining this. You sound like you're just looking for excuses to murder your political opponents. And you probably think you're a patriot too.
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Protesting isn't abnormal behavior. Standing in the middle of streets and attacking vehicles if they come near most certainly IS abnormal behavior; its criminal behavior as a point of fact. It should also be said that road blocking protests tend to move, there are few warnings, and they tend to swarm cars so they cant turn around.

Its not escalating to attempt to go about your day and get from point A to point B to do things you want to do because a bunch of idiots have decided to engage in criminal behavior.

Last, don't make crappy accusations, I am not looking for excuses, I am telling you what will happen if these types of incidents continue to happen. People will not put their lives at risk over the criminal behavior of others.
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
Perhaps he should not have tried driving through a crowd of people. A vehicle can be a dangerous weapon
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Or perhaps the crowd of people should stay out of the street.

My mommy taught me that a vehicle can be a dangerous weapon.
 
jimbo said:
Or perhaps the crowd of people should stay out of the street.

My mommy taught me that a vehicle can be a dangerous weapon.
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Exactly the guy was driving a dangerous weapon right through a group of people, he was shot in self defense, glad to see you agree
 
Deuce said:
Once again apdst cheers on murder.
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Once again the MSM somehow seemed to forget to report on this. Talk about cheering on murder, the left media do that on a daily basis.
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
Exactly the guy was driving a dangerous weapon right through a group of people, he was shot in self defense, glad to see you agree
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Your right to protest does not extend to a right to protest illegally. Nor does it extend to threatening people.

The so called dangerous weapon driver was the one acting legally.
 
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