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> You mean the police blocked the interstate for the protest This makes me so sad. I’m in no way excusing the driver (who will undoubtedly receive punishment)

> You mean the police blocked the interstate for the protest This makes me so sad. I’m in no way excusing the driver (who will undoubtedly receive punishment), but after 19 consecutive days of walking onto the freeway, and the city effectively supporting it, some kind of accident was bound to happen at some point. It’s terrible, but I hope there’s some lessons to be learned (the city seems to have learned something, as they stopped allowing the nightly freeway protests).

magicalist 6y ago
> I’m in no way excusing the driver (who will undoubtedly receive punishment), but after 19 consecutive days of walking onto the freeway, and the city effectively supporting it, some kind of accident was bound to happen at some point Yes, someone driving onto a highway via an off ramp is bound to lead to an accident.
- amscanne 6y ago
  Again: I’m not excusing the obviously dangerous behavior of the driver. However, people do stupid and reckless things all the time — and as a society we take reasonable precautions against that. I don’t know why he ended up on that road, but it was only a matter of time before someone ended up there. I sincerely doubt that freeways are shut down flawlessly 100% of the time.
fzeroracer 6y ago
> some kind of accident was bound to happen at some point. This seems to be burying the lede quite a bit. This wasn't an 'accident', this was someone driving up an off-ramp, turning around, driving past multiple vehicles which were in the way to protect protesters and swerving into them. The problem wasn't with the nightly freeway protest, it was with the person committing outright vehicular homicide.
- 6nf 6y ago
  You can't be serious. That black man that killed the protestor on the freeway was in no way intentionally ramming into the people. He was driving along a freeway. He did his best to miss the people but they were everywhere! You think he did this ON PURPOSE? Are you for real? What's his motive?
  - fzeroracer 6y ago
    You realize there's video of the incident at hand, right [1] (not safe for the squeamish)? You can see the driver drive by multiple obvious vehicles on the shoulder of the highway, then swerve into protesters. They weren't 'everywhere' as you claim, he literally drive right into them. He didn't 'do his best to miss them' by swerving into them. Anyone else in that exact situation would've seen the vehicles like that from a mile away and slowed down safely. This is before we even start talking about that the highway was closed and that he had to take an off-ramp onto it and then do a u-turn, which was corroborated by the police. Though I have a feeling you won't respond again after this. [1] https://twitter.com/4t4r11/status/1279470869774061568?s=20 https://twitter.com/4t4r11/status/1279470869774061568?s=20
    - 6nf 6y ago
      I did watch the video. I know the guy was likely speeding, and I don't know how he got onto the road. He swerved to miss the car on the road, lost control and hit two people. That's what I'm seeing in that video. Do I think he was TRYING to kill people? No. Definitely not. But let's wait for the court case I guess.
      - fzeroracer 6y ago
        He didn't swerve to miss the cars. At the start of the video he was already driving on the shoulder of the freeway (indicating that he clearly saw the cars on the road and chose to drive by them at high speeds). He wasn't even in the proper lane. Once he bypassed those cars, he then proceeded to swerve into the two protesters on the left hand side of his car. Rather than slamming on the breaks, he ran full speed into them. And again, per your own admission, he was speeding. On a freeway that was closed. Where he was caught with multiple cameras driving up the wrong entrance and then doing a U-Turn. Occam's Razor would indicate that this was not an accident at all because there's so many confounding factors that it would be absurd.

magicalist 6y ago

> I’m in no way excusing the driver (who will undoubtedly receive punishment), but after 19 consecutive days of walking onto the freeway, and the city effectively supporting it, some kind of accident was bound to happen at some point Yes, someone driving onto a highway via an off ramp is bound to lead to an accident.

amscanne 6y ago
Again: I’m not excusing the obviously dangerous behavior of the driver. However, people do stupid and reckless things all the time — and as a society we take reasonable precautions against that. I don’t know why he ended up on that road, but it was only a matter of time before someone ended up there. I sincerely doubt that freeways are shut down flawlessly 100% of the time.

fzeroracer 6y ago

> some kind of accident was bound to happen at some point. This seems to be burying the lede quite a bit. This wasn't an 'accident', this was someone driving up an off-ramp, turning around, driving past multiple vehicles which were in the way to protect protesters and swerving into them. The problem wasn't with the nightly freeway protest, it was with the person committing outright vehicular homicide.

6nf 6y ago
You can't be serious. That black man that killed the protestor on the freeway was in no way intentionally ramming into the people. He was driving along a freeway. He did his best to miss the people but they were everywhere! You think he did this ON PURPOSE? Are you for real? What's his motive?
- fzeroracer 6y ago
  You realize there's video of the incident at hand, right [1] (not safe for the squeamish)? You can see the driver drive by multiple obvious vehicles on the shoulder of the highway, then swerve into protesters. They weren't 'everywhere' as you claim, he literally drive right into them. He didn't 'do his best to miss them' by swerving into them. Anyone else in that exact situation would've seen the vehicles like that from a mile away and slowed down safely. This is before we even start talking about that the highway was closed and that he had to take an off-ramp onto it and then do a u-turn, which was corroborated by the police. Though I have a feeling you won't respond again after this. [1] https://twitter.com/4t4r11/status/1279470869774061568?s=20 https://twitter.com/4t4r11/status/1279470869774061568?s=20
  - 6nf 6y ago
    I did watch the video. I know the guy was likely speeding, and I don't know how he got onto the road. He swerved to miss the car on the road, lost control and hit two people. That's what I'm seeing in that video. Do I think he was TRYING to kill people? No. Definitely not. But let's wait for the court case I guess.
    - fzeroracer 6y ago
      He didn't swerve to miss the cars. At the start of the video he was already driving on the shoulder of the freeway (indicating that he clearly saw the cars on the road and chose to drive by them at high speeds). He wasn't even in the proper lane. Once he bypassed those cars, he then proceeded to swerve into the two protesters on the left hand side of his car. Rather than slamming on the breaks, he ran full speed into them. And again, per your own admission, he was speeding. On a freeway that was closed. Where he was caught with multiple cameras driving up the wrong entrance and then doing a U-Turn. Occam's Razor would indicate that this was not an accident at all because there's so many confounding factors that it would be absurd.