Pretty long-winded reply that still managed to avoid answering my one, single question to you.
Let me repeat for you again:
Please explain what reasonable and responsible actions the driver took that makes it okay to hit pedestrians standing on a freeway closed off by the police.
“Please explain what reasonable and responsible actions the driver took that makes it okay to hit pedestrians standing on a freeway closed off by the police.”
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Your premise is flawed. You believe I give the driver the okay to do what he did.
I’d like to say I am stunned you failed to assess my post correctly. You are simply angry because I place the harmful consequences of the protestor’s actions upon themselves.
I literally owe you no answer that will please you, for you wish to remove any and/or resulting harm from the women who were in the roadway/highway.
You have my answer. Simply because it doesn’t make you happy does not in anyway make it less of an answer.
Sometimes people can have differing viewpoints. This is one of those times. I am not faulting you for you having your viewpoint; I simply do not share that viewpoint.
You would be waiting for a very long time for my removing any responsibility from themselves of their part of the equation.
I’m not into babyism and cannot, nay, will not, change from my viewpoint simply to appease someone else. I would consider that an act of cowardice.
the pedestrians had no police permission to be on the freeway.
so any guilt presumed on the part of the driver (and at this stage it is presumed, not in evidence) is at best a wash.
the freeway is designed and intended to be a “free way” for automobiles to drive at high speed, not intended for pedestrians to demonstrate and disrupt the primary intended use. all posted freeway signs reinforce the intended use, as used by the auto driver. more strikes against pedestrians’ side of the equation imho.
finally the auto driver seemed to slow down somewhat before the blockade, and he also seemed to attempt to take evasive action to steer his auto away in a direction away from a larger clump of protesters to his front and right. at the time the driver took this last evasive action, the two victims seem to move into his path rather than to safety. the driver seemed to have a choice between hitting the two victims to his left, or remaining on a straight course and hitting even more victims. the driver probably had less than a second to make a decision and react.
the traffic funnel or roadblock does not appear to have been designed with the safety of protesters in mind if a vehicle with a driver who is unaware of the protest were to approach at normal freeway speeds.
how about an answer from you:
please explain what reasonable and responsible actions the protest organizers and the mayor took that makes it safe to stand in the center lanes of a freeway or to permit protester access to the center lanes of an interstate freeway, under any circumstances.