He could have backed up.
Instead he chose to drive into a crowd.
You ever been in a situation like that?
I have. It wasn’t that big of a crowd but it was an angry crowd that had us boxed in. I wasn’t the driver but my ex marine buddy was and he told me to hold on. “If they get any closer I’m gonna run them over. If they get us out of the truck we are dead.”
Luckily it didn’t happen but at the time, I was scared shitless but totally understood what my buddy said.