He was driving a FUEL truck at full spead into a large crowd of peaceful demonstrators. When he stopped, some people beat on him, and some tried to protect him. He had a long view of the place where the demonstrators were and should have stopped or slowed down, or gone around. He was arrested. See links below:
https://kttc.com/2020/05/31/semi-truck-drives-through-crowd-of-protesters-injuries-unclear/
>>should have stopped or slowed down, or gone around.<<
Horseshit! I would have been hittin’ the gas and shiftin’ gears.
Your second article states that he got his first view of this episode of Minnesota Zombie Apocalypse as he came around a curve. MINNDOT admits that he was already on the interstate before they got around to placing their barricade. That was a pretty serious dereliction on the part of the same local gov’t that hatched the genius plan to DIRECT their coddled mob to play on I-frigging-35W in the first place.
A bulk liquid tanker takes extra room and a lot of skill to slow down without dumping it over. I pulled bulk liquid hazmat trailers for years, so I know a little bit about this. A lesser driver could well have panicked when he came upon that CF, dumped it, and incinerated every one of those bozos who were milling around on the bridge. A simple internet search will show you about 40 video clips of what happens when a flammable load tanker dumps it on the highway. This guy didn’t do that, and the fact that he risked becoming Reginald Denny II by stopping at all speaks highly of him.
I’m now a grocery trucker in the same region. My aunt in the MPLS suburbs told me last night what anyone else who thinks practically will have guessed by now. The stores that haven’t been destroyed are running out of food. Every trucker in the area will have seen this incident video by now. He will have noted that the government can’t even keep the interstate highways clear, and that he risks being beaten by a mob or thrown in jail by virtue-signaling officials for attempting to bring their citizens supplies. Plenty of them will be telling their dispatchers that they’ll quit rather than go anywhere near that mess. But at least that bad truck driver is in custody.
"Peaceful demonstrators" don't block highways.
Don’t play in traffic, kids.
Crowd was entirely in the wrong.
released with no charges. He was driving a company truck and GPS data didn’t mesh with him intentionally trying to run into the protestors
You are 100% wrong.