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originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: DBCowboy
This is a sick sort of Christmas. They're getting all their wishes fulfilled. They just knew it! And now some idiot in a car gave them all the reason they need to let the hatred flow.
It's like lancing a boil.
It's why I've been afraid every time some event like this happens. Sooner or later, I knew they were going to have their excuse provided.
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: Shamrock6
originally posted by: underwerks
Anyone remember not too long ago when people on the right tried to make it legal to do what this driver did?
In North Dakota, it could become legal to hit a protester with your car
Kind of makes you think..
No, but I do remember when you tried to use this incident as an example of what you think bills like that really mean.
The key phrases in that bill are "unintentional" and "exercise due care."
It's not a blank check to run over protesters. Neither is the North Carolina bill.
I didn't mean it's a blank check to run over people. A lawyer could spin this as unintentional and the guy could probably get off under the right circumstances if that bill went through.
I'm more concerned with the precedent a bill like that sets.
and that is categorically false.
Anyone remember not too long ago when people on the right tried to make it legal to do what this driver did?
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: DBCowboy
No, the car thing is only terrorism if the driver is white, not if he shouts Allah Snackbar.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: DBCowboy
This is a sick sort of Christmas. They're getting all their wishes fulfilled. They just knew it! And now some idiot in a car gave them all the reason they need to let the hatred flow.
It's like lancing a boil.
It's why I've been afraid every time some event like this happens. Sooner or later, I knew they were going to have their excuse provided.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
I'd like to know why this guy hasn't been named.
What are they (the police) hiding?
What could be so bad about this guy?
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: face23785
a reply to: underwerks
The bill doesn't pertain to intentionally trying to murder protesters. You're lying, and you KNOW you're lying. Stop lying.
Now who's lying. The bill has an intended purpose, and it sure isn't to protect the safety of protestors. Don't be obtuse.
You are lying. You are claiming the bill was meant to make what this driver today did legal. All indications are this driver was bent on murder. You're a liar. Stop pushing lies.
Drivers who run into protesters would be protected from lawsuits under new proposed legislation in Tennessee.
The bill offered by a pair of Republicans would apply only to instances in which drivers are “exercising due care” when they strike someone “participating in a protest or demonstration” that is “blocking traffic in a public right-of-way.”
A second clause in the half-page bill clarifies, “A person shall not be immune from civil liability if the actions leading to the injury were willful or wanton.”
That distinction sometimes can be fuzzy. Last month, a man drove through a group of protesters in Nashville and wound up with several of them on his hood. He said they jumped onto the car, they said he struck them.
originally posted by: CranialSponge
a reply to: EchoesInTime
The cops there just let this get totally out of control. The early video shows them just standing by and letting them physically attack each other and then haphazardly try to pull them apart. They were nowhere near the people who got run down and took minutes to get there.
They obviously never recieved proper training on how to police protests.
Yeah, no kidding.
It's too bad you aren't a cop working in Charlottesville right now because you'd totally have it all under control right from the get-go.
originally posted by: TheOneElectric
a reply to: joshysway
Obviously, because everything posted there is true. Just like the demons coming out of the sky coming in mid September.