BLM protestors struck by car during freeway protest in Seattle

[HappyCamper]

Sorry, I did just read the article in the OP that says the protesters themselves blocked the road.

The first sources I read (twitter) was that police closed it down, so I'm sorry I was wrong.

My overall opinion doesn't change. The driver clearly swerved around a blocked road and accelerated into protesters. The officers believe that he illegally entered the highway on an exit ramp.

Dude knew what he was doing.

Jesus.

 

[Halifax]

Says WHO? You? The police said they were there illegally, had no permit and were attempting to block the road themselves. No closed road.

Which changes basically nothing about the homicide .

You can't drive up and off ramp into a crowd of people to kill them

 

[HappyCamper]

No shit.

I thought it was against the rules to encourage and/or celebrate this shit?

Who is celebrating it?

 

[Gunny]

Sorry, I did just read the article in the OP that says the protesters themselves blocked the road.

The first sources I read (twitter) was that police closed it down, so I'm sorry I was wrong.

My overall opinion doesn't change. The driver clearly swerved around a blocked road and accelerated into protesters. The officers believe that he illegally entered the highway on an exit ramp.

Dude knew what he was doing.

You may be still jumping the gun. From some of the sources I’ve read, I’m gleaning that the suspect may have been trying to evade the police - this the reckless driving.

 

[BEER]

You may be still jumping the gun. From some of the sources I’ve read, the suspect may have been trying to evade the police - this the reckless driving.

Can you post a source?

 

[BarryDillon]

2 months ago lefties talked about how it was wrong for non-state actors to try detaining Ahmaud Arbery (and I agreed with them). Now all of a sudden people have to comply with angry non-state actors.

This is a completely disingenuous framing. You don't have the right to murder protestors with their car because they're in the street.

No amount of farcical nonsense about detainment changes that.

 

[Mr. Shickadance]

Did he know that?

Well he should know not to drive the wrong way on an exit ramp

 

[Deleted member 159002]

This is a completely disingenuous framing. You don't have the right to murder protestors with their car because they're in the street.

No amount of farcical nonsense about detainment changes that.

If the driver in the OP went there specifically to run people over, as some people are claiming, then he should be charged. That's different from someone going somewhere not looking for conflict and finding a mob that wants to detain him.

 

[BJ@LW&WW]

i have no sympathy for people who 'protest' by blocking roads. but that is reckless driving that resulted in some serious bodily harm. there is no doubt the driver should be held accountable.

 

[Confucamus]

As stupid and misguided as these two girls are, and peeking their FB they are WAY out in left field, they didn't deserve to be run over like that. Reports say they are in critical but stable condition. Which could mean just about anything. They could be braindead or permanently disabled. Doesn't appear this guy hit people on purpose, but I'm reading that the only way he could get on there was by going up an off ramp. I could understand being frustrated with the highway closure and wanting to drive on it anyways but he shouldn't have done that.

 

[Prokofievian]

Again you're asking a loaded question. "Murder" is not synonymous with "kill". Murder is a wrongful killing. You need to demonstrate that people are obligated to let non-state actors control their movement on public roads.

I really don't need to do much to demonstrate that. In pretty much every location everywhere you are obliged to not accelerate into pedestrians, whether they have the right of way or not. Moreover, what you are arguing would have to be a legal defence, and thus you'd have to cite some sort of legal statute that shows that, no, people are under no obligation to first of all obey local traffic ordinances, but are also under no obligation to avoid, and not accelerate into pedestrians. You have not done this. What you're trying to do is rhetorically justify murder, mostly because you think Biden will make it so that you can't harass transexuals in the workplace. Which is, of course, fucking insane.

 

[kahiljabroni]

Devil is in the details here. Obviously if the intent was to hit protesters its murder. I highly doubt it but its possible. More likely imo they were confused, impatient, an idiot, etc and mistakenly drove into a dumbass protest.

On a side note it's a miracle there isn't dozens of people run over with the way these dumbasses try to block our roads

 

[BearGrounds]

This jag off and anyone who liked his post should be infracted

Pieces of shit the lot of you

Stop being a sensitive drama queen, that post isn't infraction worthy and calling for such things is exactly the kind of PC suppression we do not want to see on these boards.

That said, if it's true that the driver had to actually put in effort to bypass roadblocks to hit these protesters, that's psychotic; that person needs prison time to ponder why on earth they attempted vehicular homicide.

These kinds of protests are asinine, and those who engage in them are fools and nutjobs. But a callous attack upon those involved in them should in no way be condoned.

 

[Mr Holmes]

They're fascists. Nothing you say will reach through to them. They don't view their enemies as people.

Do you want to see them under your boot?

 

[RetiredSlave]

2.3k likes. Ludacris.

 

[BarryDillon]

If the driver in the OP went there specifically to run people over, as some people are claiming, then he should be charged. That's different from someone going somewhere not looking for conflict and finding a mob that wants to detain him.

I agree that your completely made up scenario is different than what happens in real life. I'm glad that we would find some common ground.

 

[Gunny]

Can you post a source?

It’s something I’m gleaning through various online chatter. I’m not going to put the comments forth as thought they’re authoritative (and there’s more that what I’ve mentioned). The point is just that we don’t yet know all the details and it’s best not to jump to conclusions.

 

[BEER]

The average braking distance for a sedan is around 135 feet from 60-0. Add a few feet if you're doing 65-70.

The line of sight to the cars blocking the road looks to be several hundred yards. So the "no time to brake" argument is bunk as fuck.

 

[Prokofievian]

If the driver in the OP went there specifically to run people over, as some people are claiming, then he should be charged. That's different from someone going somewhere not looking for conflict and finding a mob that wants to detain him.

Oh wow, so there are limits, in your view, of when you're allowed to murder people with whom you do not agree. How humane. Are you sure? These people might have positively retweeted something from #BLM, and thus their leftist lives would be forfeit.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

i have no sympathy for people who 'protest' by blocking roads. but that is reckless driving that resulted in some serious bodily harm. there is no doubt the driver should be held accountable.

This is a reasonable position even though I don't agree with it in its entirety.

It's at least reckless driving