Posted on 05/30/2020 10:08:01 PM PDT by Morgana
DOWNTOWN ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) -- A man was killed after being dragged by a FedEx truck overnight in downtown St. Louis during a night of protests, police said Saturday.
The incident happened near N. Broadway and O'Fallon shortly after 3:00 a.m. The man was taken to a hospital where he later died, police said.
Police said the truck was forced off Interstate 70 due to protesters on the roadway. The truck got off onto North Broadway, heading toward Cass. While on N. Broadway, police said, the driver stopped the truck due to more protesters in the road. Slideshow: George Floyd protests across the US
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Bystander Jared Arms captured a video of protesters blocking off a section of the road with their cars and setting something on fire when the FedEx truck approached. As it came to a halt, a crowd of protesters surrounded the front of the truck and began banging and climbing onto the passenger side. Police said two people standing on the passenger side footboard of the truck pointed guns at the driver.
Demonstrators were also seen running off with packages from the truck.
The truck driver, fearing for his safety police said, sounded his horn then drove off.
"I was standing on the side of the pavement and I started to notice a crowd go to the truck, so when I went over there, I heard people say there's a guy trapped under the tire," said Arms.
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The media has their marching orders to continue to call them “protests” and “demonstrators”.
Play stupid games.....
And bystanders.
Sad. Very sad. My heart goes out to the driver.
Thanks for posting. For some reason I thought this happened in Dallas which was a little confusing because I know that Interstate 70 doesn’t pass through Dallas. I viewed the long version of Jared Arms’ video and that gives considerable context to what happened.
“ Demonstrators were also seen running off with packages from the truck.”
Demonstrators? Really?
well the DBys can’t possibly report this without reporting the cop killed in Cal or the store owner pummeled to near death can they?....well sure they can....
Who knew looting was a such a dangerous occupation?
The media has their marching orders to continue to call them “protests” and “demonstrators”.
= = = =
Yeah....these thugs/anarchists are as much protesters and demonstrators as Mooch 0bama is a fashion model.
They just keep trying to put lipstick on their proverbial you-know-whats. As if any sane person would eventually believe it.
FAIL!!
I drive south thru Seattle and Portland today to the Cali border in Medford in my semi.
With an AK on my passenger seat.
I did too. Glad I searched it out. I wanted to find out the name of the big dummy who became a speed bump but they not given out his name.
Who ever he was, I’m sure he had just “gotten his life around and was going to college in September” /sarc
>> The media has their marching orders to continue to call them “protests” and “demonstrators”.
MSNBC, NBC, CNBC are Comcast
CNN is ATT
ABC is Disney
Comcast, ATT, and Disney are pretty much the MSM.
Burning cities = extreme protests. Who knew?
(Ben Hur reference)
...more like mess-ala-stupid.
Probably jamar quavious or something like that, I’m betting on a very hood name.
that driver had to be thinking if he stopped he would be dragged and killed by the ferals.....truck drivers.....do not stop.....
My BFF said that she didn’t know FedEx made local pickup and deliveries.
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