Playing in the street. At night. UPDATED

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Jul 042020
 

Well this was pretty much  inevitable… two protestors struck by a car moving at high speed and flung a comically high distance up and out with resounding “thumps” both up and down. This was made possible not because the car was on the sidewalk, but because the protestors were on a darkened Seattle freeway at night.

Edit: original tweeted video seems to have been yanked.

 

The driver will of course have to answer a lot of questions. But as to whether the driver is at fault here? Dunno. Lots of possibilities:

  1. Driver saw what was up ahead and maliciously plowed into them
  2. Driver was drunk
  3. Driver simply didn’t see what was up ahead until too late to avoid (cars don’t exactly stop on a dime, especially when moving at freeway speeds).
  4. Driver saw what was coming at the last second and decided not to be Denny’d

My guess based on nothing is Number 3, with a dash of Number 2. But then I read THIS ARTICLE which indicates that the highway was already closed down and that the driver came onto the freeway by way of an *OFF* ramp. Considering that the car in question is a Jaguar and probably costs a fair chunk of change, my thinking transmogrifies into wondering if what we have is a car thief out joyriding.

But whatever the drivers story is, the dumber story is necessarily that of the protestors. What exactly did they plan to achieve by blockading a major high-speed freeway at night? This sort of thing is dumb and malicious enough when done during the day before slow-moving gridlocked or stoplighted vehicles. When done *literally* under the cover of darkness, it’s just…. stupid.

One can always hope that this sort of thing will *finally* lead to new laws, such as “intentionally blocking traffic is now a major felony with a minimum ten year sentence followed by stripping of citizenship and deportation to Somalia,” but I bet it won’t. Idiots and their enablers and co-conspirators will continue to falsely claim that protestors who block traffic are within their Constitutional rights to do so, and will thus be complicit in the injuries and deaths that will continue to mount.

Don’t play in the streets, kids.

UPDATE…

BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE!!!

Man Who Drove Into Black Lives Matter Protesters In Seattle Is Identified

Not exactly what one might have in mind when assuming the incident was an attack by a white supremacist Trump supporter.

And then there’s this… left without comment.

 

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