Having his car attacked before he accelerated likely does at least merit consideration.
The female reporter who got beaten up for filming a group of “antifa” mutants sent a Twitter message very shortly after the incident with the car ... indicating that the police officers she had spoken to suggested it wasn’t a deliberate attack but a young guy who was scared sh!tless and panicked when people began attacking his car.
There is no indication that is what happened...video shows the car driving at least one block and through an intersection before plowing into the protesters milling in the street.
The driver was not under attack before that happened, nor was his vehicle being blocked.