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originally posted by: stirling
a reply to: Jamie1
Cant make an omlet without breaking a few eggs.....this is a duplicate of your other troll thread is it?
Your consistent with your own little propaganda campaign aren't you?
If somebody dies because they stop an ambulance, how many people will get charged with murder?
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
It's not like they knew they were blocking an Ambulance...
The title implies that they intentionally stood in the way of an Ambulance...
They'd actually blocked the 2 interstates...
If somebody dies because they stop an ambulance, how many people will get charged with murder?
Here is a little story...
Couple of years ago a young man was shot in my neighbourhood...
The police arrived & cordoned off the scene...
For over an hour they refused entry to the ambulance while he was laying on the floor dying of his wounds...
By the time the paramedics were let through, he had passed away!
I've heard similar stories coming from your side of the Water, never heard of a murder charge because of it.
I'm not justifying the protesters, it was an ill conceived idea...
I'm just wondering if you, or anyone who would agree with your question, would also want murder charges for police who do the same with the knowledge they're endangering someone's life!
Bare in mind, with what your implying, that the protesters had no knowledge of an Ambulance!
Otherwise the article would have mentioned that I believe.
Gotta love a good old fashioned deflection.
originally posted by: stirling
You mean like the cops who shot the boy with the toy gun and watched him bleed out while they stood around the body?
originally posted by: Darkblade71
Protesting and civil disobedience is meant to disrupt anything and everything, that is the point, especially when voices are not being heard as loudly as they are trying to be heard.
I think with every disruption, more attention if paid to the cause.
But that is just how I see it.
More power to them, although no one should die,
because all lives matter.
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
a reply to: Jamie1
No one has the authority to refuse someone medical assessment!
& the fact you'd say that instead of saying both are wrong...
I can't even!!!
What cause do you think they are endearing the people to who they blocked from getting to work?
If I'm remembering U.S. law correctly, you are permitted to slow down enough not to injure anyone and gently "nudge" them with your vehicle to get them to move. If the mass starts attacking your car after that, well.. You could reasonably be in fear of your life at that moment and be justified in perhaps putting your foot down a little harder and "clearing a path" so to speak.
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
So...I would like to know, in cases like this...say I am driving down the highway and have a life threatening emergency and there are idiots blocking my way in a protest. Am I legally allowed to plow through them since it would either be them or me? It isn't like it would be premeditated and it would be a life and death situation, so am I allowed to do this or would that be considered murder since I made the judgement call to run them over and someone may die because of it?
If you don't think this is ok and If I can't do that in a life and death situation then why should they be allowed any less of a judgement because they are protesting and someone could die because of it?
As a side note, if I were in a situation like that I would make every attempt not to hit anyone as I drove through them. Didn't their mama's ever teach them not to play in the street?
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
So...I would like to know, in cases like this...say I am driving down the highway and have a life threatening emergency and there are idiots blocking my way in a protest. Am I legally allowed to plow through them since it would either be them or me? It isn't like it would be premeditated and it would be a life and death situation, so am I allowed to do this or would that be considered murder since I made the judgement call to run them over and someone may die because of it?
If you don't think this is ok and If I can't do that in a life and death situation then why should they be allowed any less of a judgement because they are protesting and someone could die because of it?
As a side note, if I were in a situation like that I would make every attempt not to hit anyone as I drove through them....after all it is not my problem if they are on a highway meant for cars and can't avoid one right? Didn't their mama's ever teach them not to play in the street?
originally posted by: ScientificRailgun
If I'm remembering U.S. law correctly, you are permitted to slow down enough not to injure anyone and gently "nudge" them with your vehicle to get them to move. If the mass starts attacking your car after that, well.. You could reasonably be in fear of your life at that moment and be justified in perhaps putting your foot down a little harder and "clearing a path" so to speak.
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
So...I would like to know, in cases like this...say I am driving down the highway and have a life threatening emergency and there are idiots blocking my way in a protest. Am I legally allowed to plow through them since it would either be them or me? It isn't like it would be premeditated and it would be a life and death situation, so am I allowed to do this or would that be considered murder since I made the judgement call to run them over and someone may die because of it?
If you don't think this is ok and If I can't do that in a life and death situation then why should they be allowed any less of a judgement because they are protesting and someone could die because of it?
As a side note, if I were in a situation like that I would make every attempt not to hit anyone as I drove through them. Didn't their mama's ever teach them not to play in the street?