Right now there are three comments here. One denying the agency of drivers who kill people, one describing protests as "terrorizing" and celebrating the legaliz

Right now there are three comments here. One denying the agency of drivers who kill people, one describing protests as "terrorizing" and celebrating the legalization of manslaughter, and one describing Democrat mayors as "leftists" (which they are not by any stretch of the imagination) and implying the mayor of Portland isn't allowing the police to "handle downtown riots" (which is easily disproven by watching even a few seconds of the videos of protests in that city) while asserting that drivers who crashed cars into protestors are justified in believing they would be "pulled from their vehicle and possibly killed" (a thing that hasn't happened) and that SF and Portland are "lawless" cities. If you don't hear the dogwhistles, maybe you've just gone deaf from the constant exposure. But even without those it should be obvious that there are three things going on here: 1) People are blatantly and knowingly lying about what happened at the various protests over the past year to create a boogeyman to justify the deliberate attacks on protestors using cars (which prior to the Unite the Right rally was exclusively seen as an Islamist terrorist tactic). 2) People are conflating different scenarios involving drivers running over protestors ("innocent" drivers taking a "wrong turn" and being confronted by an "angry mob" and panicking; police officers intentionally crashing through a group of people rather than backing off and taking a detour as a show of force; white supremacists intentionally crashing cars into groups of people as an act of terrorism; etc). 3) People are creating a false narrative of "leftist" officials conspiring with criminals while "concerned citizens" flee the chaos as the police stands idly by doing nothing (suggesting the solution to the "lawlessness" is more enforcement, cracking down harder on protestors, further radicalizing them rather than addressing the underlying injustices that caused the unrests in the first place). Note that this isn't a matter of opinion. These claims are factually wrong. These lies are knowingly spread. Describing protests where the police routinely shot out protestors' eyes, literally covered parts of the city in tear gas for weeks and arrested and attacked clearly identifiable professional journalists including TV camera teams, as "lawlessness" is not just a misunderstanding, it's a call for violence.