I'm only referring to the guy swinging the flag pole at the moving car, not the stuff about the reflections in the car's bumper.
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Posted on 08/13/2017 5:08:25 PM PDT by NoLibZone
On August 12, a driver drove his vehicle into a crowd of “anti-racist” protesters, killing one woman and injuring 19 other individuals. The suspect has been identified as James Alex Fields, Jr.
Department of Memes reported that police officers in Charlottesville believed the driver was not acting maliciously, suggesting he was scared by the protesters on every side of his vehicle and he did not know what to do.
To quote Sgt Friday, “Just the facts”. I have to remark that your two exhibits are positively the worst videos of the incident I have seen.
... the woman being killed as she is pinned between the rear of the car and the parked truck....
You mean the one with the baseball bat who was beating on his trunk?
Yeah.
Why do you have to remark that?
Those links were initially posted by someone else. I agree that it would be nice to see them in higher definition, although I doubt it would change any facts...
I have, through my lurking at 4 chan, seen a number of videos of the event. As I posted, yours were the worst of all I have seen in conveying any sense of what might have happened. Please bear in mind I am not accusing you of cherry picking the worst only of having sought what appear to be the least informative.
Well that's patently false as well...
I'm only referring to the guy swinging the flag pole at the moving car, not the stuff about the reflections in the car's bumper.
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I, for one, appreciate your fact gathering efforts.
I understood her comment about the black friend to be in response to the claim her son was a racist. I didn’t take it to mean they were travelling together.
I think he ran into the preexisting accident between the BMW and that third vehicle. He probably hooked bumpers with the beamer.
What car hit him?
Who was driving the van?
Didn’t see a vehicle hit him. He got hit with that flagpole, which seemed to be a common tactic of the demonstrators to get a car to stop. If you look carefully at the drone footage, you’ll see somebody hit the left rear side of the van just as it starts moving forward.
If you watch all the clips...the kid is guilty at best of reckless driving (misdemeanor in VA).
When he drives into the crowd and you have the video from right side of the vehicle running...there’s three seconds as he stops, and then three to four ‘thugs’ jump upon the rear of his car....with baseball bats. I see something resembling a hammer, and then you see the window on the rear broke. This goes on for about three to four seconds, then you see this young lady that runs from the left of the screen toward the rear of the vehicle, and just as she’s preparing to jump on the back of the vehicle, you see the reverse lights come on.
The kid is preparing to reverse out, and the girl is in some forward motion on the rear...she’ll be carried backward with the motion about fifteen feet and tossed between the car and that parked black truck. I think she’s pinned or squeezed between the vehicles.
In a jury situation, once you see the three or four thugs hammering away on his car...the prosecution has mostly an unwinnable case. Then you toss on the behavior of the young lady who thinks that by jumping on the rear....you will stop the vehicle. She guessed wrong.
Go and try to find a jury to convict the kid...it just won’t happen. They may try to convince him to accept manslaughter by vehicle, and take four years in prison as a plea deal. I’d say no...go for full jury and walk away from this episode.
For any of these people who attend these protest actions....if your intent is to do something stupid and die today, it’s not worth that. I feel sorry for her, but you just can’t put yourself into a position where the driver is under a threat and must react.
Looks like the rear window has already been damaged by a bat .
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