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Pedestrian protestors have developed the tactic of gathering on high speed highways, surrounding cars, and trying to assault the drivers. If the driver is not
by Jiro 5y ago
Pedestrian protestors have developed the tactic of gathering on high speed highways, surrounding cars, and trying to assault the drivers. If the driver is not permitted to "mow down" protestors (meaning trying to get away when the pedestrians are trying to prevent that), this means that drivers have no way of defending themselves against such attacks at all.
- tessierashpool 5y ago> Pedestrian protestors have developed the tactic of gathering on high speed highways true > surrounding cars, trying to assault the drivers false
- Vecr 5y agoWhat do you mean by "false"? Did you forget the LA riots? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots#Attack_on_Reginald_Denny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots#Attack_... Do not stop the car. Do not get out. Do not surrender. Kill as many as you need to save yourself.
- dctoedt 5y agoFrom the linked Wikipedia article about the Rodney King riots: "In another incident, the LAPD and Marines intervened in a domestic dispute in Compton, in which the suspect held his wife and children hostage. As the officers approached, the suspect fired two shotgun rounds through the door, injuring some of the officers. One of the officers yelled to the Marines, "Cover me," as per law enforcement training to be prepared to fire if necessary. However, per their military training, the Marines interpreted the wording as providing cover by establishing a base of firepower, resulting in a total of 200 rounds being sprayed into the house. Remarkably, neither the suspect nor the woman and children inside the house were harmed."
- greedo 5y agoThirty years ago. And this wasn't on a "high speed highway" it was on Florence Ave. And equating largely peaceful protests with the LA riots is really a mistake. The LA riots turned violent very quickly, while the BLM marches stayed peaceful by and large with the exception of right-wing agitators who started looting and fires under false flag operations.
- solarhoma 5y agoThere are plenty of videos from the summer of 2020 showing BLM rioters attacking vehicles and their occupants.
- fredophile 5y agoI searched for "BLM rioters attacking vehicle". The first result was an article about a driver being attacked and pulled from their vehicle. The protestors accused the driver of assaulting them before entering the vehicle. The second article was about protestors attacking a driver who attempted to drive through the crowd. All of the rest of the links in the rest of the page were about drivers running over protestors. Perhaps you could provide a link or two to back up your assertion.
- superflit2 5y agoUse duckduckgo and different results will appear. As people asked for some duckduckgo results -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60cqUPxYThY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60cqUPxYThY https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/09/cop-in-texas-looks-on-impotently-as-blm-shuts-down-traffic-pulls-gun-on-frustrated-motorist-1071467/ https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/09/cop-in-texas-looks-o... https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12158537/protesters-attacked-car-man-cerebral-palsy/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12158537/protesters-attacked-c... https://news.yahoo.com/youtube-removes-anti-blm-livestream-220414035.html https://news.yahoo.com/youtube-removes-anti-blm-livestream-2...
- pessimizer 5y agoThis is the internet, if you found one you can just share it.
- fredophile 5y agoHere's a TL;DR of the links: [0] Guy gets into an argument with protestors, then crashes his truck. Protestors fight guy. [1] Guy exits vehicle and argues with protestors. Cop breaks it up before things get out of hand. [2] Guy (accidentally) runs over a cyclist at a protest. Protestors get angry and trash car. [3] Youtube takes down a video, puts it back up with age restrictions. In the two cases where protestors attacked a vehicle or its occupants either the driver already had an altercation with protestors or the vehicle struck a protestor. The original comment I was replying to implied that there was lots of footage of protestors attacking people in cars. This doesn't show any evidence of that. I still haven't seen any evidence that there is a problem of protestors attacking random cars and their occupants.
- arcticbull 5y agoRead that back to yourself and ask which country you live in.
- 0x0nyandesu 5y agoThe one where I can defend myself obviously
- arcticbull 5y agoOne where you need to kill people for stealing car parts my dude, holy moly, that’s not just terrifying it’s embarrassing.
- 0x0nyandesu 5y agoPaying $10k to fix my car right now would be literally taking food off the table for my kids and making them have to do with less over the next year during their prime development. Please reconsider what is actually embarrassing and to whom.
- arcticbull 5y agoI recommend a comprehensive car insurance policy in lieu of execution, and also rebuilding the state.
- imarid 5y agoIt just baffles me that in mostly christian country like US any kind of money is more important than human life.
- ambicapter 5y agoIf you bought a car where it costs you $10k to replace a catalytic converter, you have no business having anything to do with deciding anything in the legal system, period.
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- tessierashpool 5y ago> What do you mean by "false"? Did you forget the LA riots? that's not a tactic. that's an isolated incident in a riot which occurred 30 years ago. the GP said protestors had developed a tactic, implying recency, frequency, and deliberate planning; not that rioters had done it one time, spontaneously, in one isolated incident, 30 years ago. that's what I meant by "false." GP said something false, so I identified it as false.
- TeeMassive 5y agoIt happened in Chaz
- dmoy 5y agoThat was not on a high speed roadway
- TeeMassive 5y agoAnd?
- dmoy 5y agoSo it doesn't really fit the bill of "gathering on high speed roadways, surrounding cars, ..."
- wiml 5y agoIf drivers are allowed to use deadly force (in the form of their car) when inconvenienced by pedestrians, shouldn't we allow pedestrians to shoot drivers when they, e.g., don't stop at crosswalks or run a red light? Seems only fair!
- tdfx 5y agoI don't think being pulled from your car and beaten by an angry mob is the typical definition of inconvenience.
- omgwtfbyobbq 5y agoHad they been pulled from their vehicle, sure. In this instance they appear to be the ones doing the pushing (of protestors) and pulling (of horses). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5CnkBVEJ0Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5CnkBVEJ0Y Neither the driver or the protesters should have been acting like a-holes, but the driver has a higher standard of care given that they're operating a 3+ ton hunk of metal and plastic.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoI think the point of such laws is to shift more of the standard of care to pedestrians illegally protesting on roads meant to transport 3 ton hunks of metal.