I can't tell why those protesters were hit from that extremely short video clip. I know the protesters did not have permission to march on an on ramp to an interstate highway. It was nighttime and it appeared visibility was compromised. it also looked like the driver was speeding, panicked and lost control. The fact that one of the people hit is dead and the other in critical condition is punishment enough for those protesters. The other protesters are likely shaken up, too. It was incredibly foolish to mount a protest without permission, police escort and in the dark. The group should be fined and those fines given to the driver for therapy and car repairs.
Both parties are at fault. The protesters choosing to be dumb and intimidating the driver. And the driver for running over people. I can only see it as the zombie apocalypse or something, but until showed, both are at fault. Ethencity and so called racehave nothing to do with it. It's just common sense.
Other. What pauses me was the willful action of the motorist. A most, it was intentional vehicular homicide and at least criminal negligence. Had it been me, I would have slowed down and kept driving slowly to give them the opportunity to get or be pushed out of the way. One guy's opinion. Those two women were not creatures from Aliens.
Wow they are blocking roads in the blind of a turn at night time with no tail lights on… They should be charged with attempted murder for doing that and be held liable for all damages.
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1.) These rioters had no business being on the highway, blocking it and deliberately endangering themselves.
2.) The driver had no business driving up to and around that vehicle barricade on the shoulder that fast. What if it had been an actual accident scene? Or a pop-up emergency construction site, like pothole repair?
I have no sympathy for those who deliberately endanger themselves and disrupt the lives of innocent people. However the driver here was dead wrong and should be charged. This incident took the negative focus away from where it belongs, the assholes on the highway and all the assholes destroying businesses and property across the country.
While it's tragic to have people hit by cars, you have to expect it if you are in the middle of a path where people drive fast. Some will even argue the people blocking the freeway are "terrorists." They are intentionally trying to intimidate people and have used violence for a political agenda.
Intentionally blocking someone's path is at least harassment, and as much as false imprisonment in most states. Harassment is usually also considered an assault. If you do it in a way that's threatening, it's menacing.
These aren't pedestrians, they're criminals. Especially because people have had windows smashed on their kids, been shot, and been hit with bricks and other objects, it would be perfectly reasonable to fear for your safety if you encounter it, and you have every right to defend yourself, and sue for any damages incurred. I personally would sue the person doing the criminal act, the organization that organized the "protest", and the city for allowing it to happen.
That was satisfying to watch. Do you see what happens when cars stop? They end up smashing the car and the driver side window, followed by ripping the driver out of the vehicle and beating them to nearly death.
So yes I love seeing these IDIOTS run the hell over. Pay for the vehicle would be too hard to enforce.. these women got smacked HARD and thrown up and about at least 10 feet in the air so that’s probably punishment enough.
Definitely hilarious to watch.
You can clearly see there are other cars parked across the highway, but the driver doesn't slow down at all.
When i see a car standing across the street, i would always asume there was an accident, slow down asap.
So the driver of the car was way too fast and is partially if not solely to blame for the accident.
I have zero sympathy for "protestors" who block highways. That's pretty much a death wish on its own, is completely inappropriate for anything, and putting your own life in danger in order to become a victim yourself. The glorified victimhood mentality in the USA needs to die before it causes more damage to society.
I guess I'm wondering what exactly they expected to happen when they blocked a highway? They knowingly endangered their lives by illegal blocking highway roads and knowing very well that they could get hit by oncoming traffic.
They really don't have a right to be surprised that someone actually got hit. Black or white irregardless of your political opinions your an idiot for trying to physically block a high speed roadway like a highway with your own body.
I left Seattle last year I'm so dumb with that overrated city and the stupid stupid people in it. But even I would not think they would be this dumb. It's like being married with someone for twenty years and then all of sudden seeing all their hidden craziness.
lol wtf? so many people defending the protestors. It's illegal to hang out on highways. It's illegal to BLOCK highways. It's illegal to partially block highways and force traffic to drive by your protestors so they can throw fucking rocks at passing vehicles. It's DUMB to do it at 1 am with your lights off, and at a turn so oncoming cars can't avoid you. Clearly the driver was trying to avoid crashing into the damn vehicles the "protestors" PARKED ON THE HIGHWAY! It's hilarious the media was shitting bricks about this until the moment they found out the driver was black. And it's scary as fuck that the police are "investigating why the man was driving on the highway" but not why the protesters were blocking it. Seattle is a lost cause. When people can attempt murder on highways and you get in trouble for trying to avoid the crash they intended, there is a problem.
They have no business being on the highway on foot. At the speed you go on highways, it takes a while to brake and it severely limits your ability to maneuver so they were begging for such an accident to happen. Even then, they are lucky nothing worse happened. Soon, people like that will jump under a bus and then wonder why their skull turned into a pancake...
A little side note, it's funny how Americans managed to make GTA look normal...
I don't have an opinion except they risked and they got hit. I have been to protests in my country and the authorities don't listen and people don't care what your cause is.
It was for economic reasons but people didn't listen. The businesses were reauctioned off despite us paying the lease. At least 1000 people and their families were affected due to this
No, the city council should take responsibility.
The people on the highway are mentally ill and/or delusional and/or misinformed and/or vulnerable people and/or intellectually challenged. They think what they are doing is okay first and foremost because the city council allows them to do it.
Sure why not. I mean you're blocking cars that's going around 65 MPH. What'd you think was going to happen?
And it always surprises me that these protestors blame the driver when they're the ones breaking the law.
I gather, and stand to be corrected on this, that the highway was legally closed?, if that's correct the driver should not have been on the road in the first place,,,
In any case they knocked the protesters down deliberately, this would considered murder in UK, they could easily have driven round them,,,
In my opinion the person in the car should be sued, it sorta looked like it hit was intentional but I'm not completely sure (If it was intentional the person in the car should go to jail) and let the injury or death of the 2 people who got hit by the car be a lesson for the protestors to fucking stop standing in the middle of the highway. I'm still debating whether the protesters should also be sued for standing in the middle of the highway which was illegal in the first place and does endanger drivers especially since it was dark out and this whole thing wouldn't have happened if they weren't standing there. I don't have much sympathy for the protesters, they should have know the dangers of standing in the middle of a fucking highway and the driver should have stopped. They both were in the wrong.
The girls could’ve stayed home and watched tv enjoying their lives.
i don't know if they should be charged but they should pay for the damages they caused by breaking the law. excellent sound on this video by the way! bet that hurt lol
I think they absoultely should be charged. Last i checked protesting or not, its illegal for block a highway. Here in my state, its legal to hit them if they are blocking. City streets are different, but highways are off limits.
They shouldn't have to pay for the car, but these imbeciles should realize that standing in the middle of a highway isn't exactly gonna go their way.
A cop also ran over a protester so neither side is exceptionally good
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