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Oklahoma Passes Law Protecting Drivers Who Unintentionally Kill, Injure Rioters While Fleeing
Breitbart ^ | 4-23-2021 | Amy Furr

Posted on 04/23/2021 12:45:24 PM PDT by blam

Oklahoma passed legislation this week offering protections to drivers caught in riots who unintentionally kill or hurt rioters.

In addition, the bill increases penalties for people who block roadways during a demonstration, KHOU reported.

Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed House Bill 1674 into law on Wednesday, the outlet continued:

The measure says drivers will not be held liable if they flee the scene of a riot and injure or kill individuals if they think it was necessary to protect themselves from serious injury or death. The bill also states the driver must exercise “due care” when the injury or death occurs.

The bill was crafted following a viral altercation last summer where a pickup truck drove through a crowd protesting the death of George Floyd on a Tulsa interstate. Several people were injured in the crash, including one man paralyzed from the waist down after falling off an overpass.

Protesters damaged the vehicle as it moved through the group and witnesses accused the driver, who was with his family, of intentionally driving through the crowd of protesters.

However, he was not charged.

“HB1674 also makes it a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a [$5,000] fine to block a public street during a demonstration,” the outlet said.

Citizens saw numerous riots in Oklahoma and across nation in the summer of 2020, the bill’s author, Rep. Kevin West (R-Moore) said in a press release Thursday:

On the day this bill was signed into law, we even had an outburst in the House of Representatives. That thankfully was resolved quickly and without violence, but it illustrates that we are a nation governed by laws. I certainly support the right to peacefully protest and assemble. I will not, however, endorse rioters that spill onto city or state streets

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To: blam

“if they think it was necessary to protect themselves from serious injury or death”

Wow, subjective standard rather than reasonable person. That’ll be an appellate issue sooner or later.


21 posted on 04/23/2021 1:43:13 PM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: blueunicorn6

The term swing a dead cat refers to a Cat-o-nine-tails whip not a house pet.

A “Dead Cat” was a bare whip without hooks, glass, or knots in the flails. It “couldn’t bite,” so it was dead.

Just trivia about the term. I would never swing a dead skunk.


22 posted on 04/23/2021 1:43:54 PM PDT by Fai Mao (It is time, past time and almost too late.)
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To: blueunicorn6

Before the internet, people with mental disabilities or problems were alone. Now, they get together to protest. Not all, but many have mental issues.


23 posted on 04/23/2021 1:48:25 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Whenever you are stuffing Fulton County ballot boxes, election fraud goes better with Coca Cola!)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

We already have the right to defend ourselves and constitutional carry makes that easier but I believe this bill was passed in case you have to LEAVE the scene due to crazy libtard rioters. Normally it’s a felony to leave the scene of an accident.


24 posted on 04/23/2021 1:49:09 PM PDT by NWFree (Socialism is legalized plunder)
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To: blam
Honest, officer, I didn't see those five BLMers.

You said they are “dead?” Really?

25 posted on 04/23/2021 1:49:53 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

“Not all?”


26 posted on 04/23/2021 1:51:02 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: NWFree

Constitutional carry is wonderful, and I hope we get there coast to coast. But discharging a firearm inside a vehicle is fraught with problems. Powder burns, shrapnel injuries, severe hearing damage; it’s not like the movies at all.

I think this law exists for you to be able to plow through a crowd that’s surrounded your vehicle and is threatening your life. That situation has cropped up repeatedly across the US in the past year.


27 posted on 04/23/2021 1:52:27 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest
They’ve got enough to deal with the blood and paint damage.

Perhaps a cowcatcher mounted on the front? Sharpened stakes optional.

28 posted on 04/23/2021 1:53:56 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: blam

MAGA!


29 posted on 04/23/2021 1:56:19 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
You need one of these potato mashers on the front of your car.

30 posted on 04/23/2021 2:00:28 PM PDT by Blogatron (I don’t know how to be less white, but I do know how to buy less Coke.)
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To: blueunicorn6

Cruelty to the dead skunk if you ask me.


31 posted on 04/23/2021 2:03:18 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: TexasGurl24

and the scenario where there is no opening...?


32 posted on 04/23/2021 2:05:56 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest
When rioters are threatening your life and the lives of your family trying to break into your vehicle and kill you, you have every right to defending yourself and your family with deadly force. That’s just a basic human right.

White people don't have basic human rights.

Didn't you get the memo?

33 posted on 04/23/2021 2:14:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

If there is no opening and you are trying to survive then you’d be ok. It’s a totality of the circumstance analysis.


34 posted on 04/23/2021 2:16:39 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: Fai Mao

I’m a bit concerned that you show so much familiarity with whips.

You’re not one of those Sado Mashedpotato people, are you?


35 posted on 04/23/2021 2:23:06 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

That’s why I come to Free Republic.

Lots of fellow crazy people here.

There’s a guy here who thinks he’s a blue unicorn.

Real nut job.


36 posted on 04/23/2021 2:26:12 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

I carry one of those devices that scream loudly if you push the button. And I carry earplugs. Put in the earplugs, roll the window down a tiny bit (they’re small) push the button and toss it outside. Anyone ever use one?


37 posted on 04/23/2021 2:31:25 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: blam

Excellent law! People have a right to escape from violent attacks and from efforts to trap them into being attacked.


38 posted on 04/23/2021 2:31:32 PM PDT by familyop (Only here for the tales from the rubber room.)
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To: blueunicorn6
"You couldn’t swing a dead skunk in that room without hitting a lesbian.

And boy! Wouldn’t that be fun!
"

Looks almost as fun as the sport of broadcasting.

39 posted on 04/23/2021 2:33:32 PM PDT by familyop (Only here for the tales from the rubber room.)
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To: blam
...the driver must exercise “due care” ...

Oh, if I'm ever caught in that kind of situation I'll exercise due care so as not to run over/into anyone. Tell you what, I'll empty the magazines of my EDC into them first as incentive to get out of the way and not get run over. ;-) That's the only "due care" they merit.

40 posted on 04/23/2021 2:41:22 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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