Car rips through crowd at Black Lives Matter protest and counter-protest in Yorba Linda.

Orange County Register ^ | 09/26/2020 | Brian Rokos

[rlmorel]

That said, I in no way favor blocking cars in or out of a parking lot or on or off a roadway. I don’t know the circumstances that led up to this encounter.

[blueplum]

thanks to both of you. The driver had to come in from where the trees are; so very much intentional as opposed to a driver suddenly surprised by an unexpected crowd on the street.

[4integrity]

Agree. TV & print choose words carefully & usually the words have negative connotation when about Trump or GOP or Conservatives....subliminal indoctrination of viewers & readers.

[rlmorel]

I had a hard time verifying where the car was and where it exited. And they shot the silly video sideways!

Again, I don’t agree with blocking cars, but it is important to show the difference in the way the press is presenting their narrative of the story.

And they weren’t beating on the car the way the BLM and Antifa jackasses do...until she ran someone down.

[rlmorel]

Oh, yeah. They parse those words VERY carefully.

[Arones]

It was a parking lot.

In the video I saw it seemed like the people who got “hit” laid on the hood of the car and flopped.

[blueplum]

more info: OC Sheriff’s News Release
2 hospitalized with ‘major’ injuries
driver booked on attempted murder/assault with a deadly weapon

https://twitter.com/FixtheWorldfast/status/1310053770223472640/photo/1

[NorthWoody]

Patriots don’t block roads. Annoying idiots block roads.

[SisterK]

attempted murder

[blueplum]

ping to 67 - sorry, forgot to add you two

[rlmorel]

Now THAT was unexpected.

[dragnet2]

The Google Earth image is nice and all, but my question would be, were people intentionally blocking the vehicle from proceeding? That’s a pretty big parking lot with a wide threshold to and from Imperial Hwy.

Do you have any video of this vehicle in the parking lot, prior to the people being hit by the vehicle? Thanks.

[blueplum]

more - apparently she was a BLM protestor and was pepper-spraying people according to the videographer:

first photo is of arrest, second of her with club and pepper spray

https://twitter.com/TomasMorales_iv/status/1310052829227229189

[Big Red Badger]

This crap is
Getting old.

[SteveH]

i am not going to presume whether or not the driver had driven into the parking lot moments earlier or had parked there hours earlier and was merely attempting to exit the parking lot. from a legal perspective, i doubt that it matters.

an interesting question is who has the right of way in a public parking lot, pedestrians or automobiles. offhand, i would guess pedestrians, with the possible exception of the driver having been threatened by the pedestrians to the point that his or her life or the lives of one or more of his or her vehicle’s passengers is threatened by some act or acts that the pedestrians are doing or in imminent danger of doing.

apparently the driver had exited the vehicle at one point, perhaps to argue with a pedestrian, and was in the process of re-entering the vehicle possibly with a single black clad masked female sympathizer or friend nearby, when the bystander began shooting the video.

i did not see anyone seeming to stand in front of the vehicle. rather, one person seemed to be temporarily stationary while taking a couple of photos of the vehicle from the front of the vehicle, while other people seemed to be walking across the parking lot access lane perpendicular to the forward exit path of the vehicle.

what is not clear from the video is whether protestors had deliberately blocked the vehicle for any substantial length of time, or had threatened the driver, prior to the video’s start. it seems as if there had been a prior altercation which had not been filmed but had generated enough interest that the bystander decided to take a video. perhaps the driver had been talking, shouting, and/or acting in a belligerent manner before the start of the video (possibly likewise for some of the pedestrians).

disclaimer, IANAL

[dragnet2]

Now that I’d seen more video, it seems to be yet another angry Democrat looking to hurt or destroy. That could pass as a male. If it’s really female, I must say there sure seems to be a lot of emotionally disturbed females running around.

[tcrlaf]

The female driver was just charged with attempted murder. She intended to cause harm.

https://twitter.com/OCSheriff/status/1310050256122380289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1310050256122380289%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthedonald.win%2Fp%2FHXy8SCTQ%2Fwoman-who-ran-over-trump-support%2Fc%2F

[rlmorel]

No. As you can see from multiple posts, I certainly do not agree with blocking traffic anywhere. That is a hot button issue with me. I would be just as angry if our side did it.

My main focus was the deliberate misrepresentation by the media, presumably to draw a moral equivalence between the MANY incidents of this variety all over the country for the last six months or so perpetrated by the Left, and one incident where a roadway was actually not being blocked, but that is as far as I can go.

I too would like more information on what preceded the encounter. I looked in here for some clues, but can only speculate:

There were people clustered around this car and some guy was taking a picture of her license plate...I wondered if she was the one who pepper sprayed someone (referenced in the report) and people were trying to prevent her from leaving (hence the guy taking a picture of her plate) and I wondered if she didn't want her plate number recorded because she had done something wrong, but...I don't know.

I do know I have been to dozens of conservative protests over the years, and never saw "our side" doing those kinds of things, no blocking of traffic, no violent interactions with the Leftists, we scrupulously obeyed the law and respected and listened to law enforcement.

The LEO's knew we were on their side, too, even if they weren't allowed to publicly show it.

[SteveH]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/breaking-multiple-injuries-car-plows-crowd-trump-supporters-yorba-linda-california-video/

https://www.facebook.com/caravan4justice/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/651129555524049/

https://abc7.com/car-drives-through-dueling-demonstrations-in-yorba-linda/6585266/

YORBA LINDA, Calif. (KABC) — Violence erupted Saturday in Yorba Linda, where at least two people were seriously injured after a car drove through a demonstration involving members of Black Lives Matter and counter-protesters.

During the demonstration, a woman behind the wheel a compact car drove through an intersection, striking a man and woman. The victims were transported to a local hospital for treatment.

“The man suffered two broken legs and the woman had major injuries,’’ said Orange County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Dennis Breckner.

Video: Car drives through crowd, is attacked by protesters in Hollywood

The suspect, apparently associated with the so-called “Caravan of Justice,’’ was subsequently arrested for suspicion of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon, according to Breckner.

The BLM protest against police violence and systemic racism began around 2 p.m. on Imperial Highway and was interrupted by some of President Donald Trump’s supporters, who waved American flags, held pro-Trump signs chanted “U-S-A.” The two sides verbally confronted each other but violence did not ensue as sheriff’s deputies were on site, according to media reports from the scene.

[rlmorel]

Yes, I suffer from the same lack of concrete information, but as you can see from the post above, I have been to many conservative protests, and we don’t operate that way, so if they were blocking her car and trying to get a picture of her plate, there may indeed have been a reason.

We don’t “dox” people in my experience. I do have first hand experience of the Left (Code Pink types) doing just that.

But anything I can say is only opinion at this point. I don’t agree with blocking traffic, as many of my posts specify, so I am assuming they had a reason to block her car and attempt to take a picture of her plate.