Wow...talk about a MISLEADING title....WTF?
The guys was rolling around on the ground, screaming before the scooter even showed up on scene.
And then when the cop walk-rolled his scooter to the guy, the guys legs were NOT run over...they were moving around NEAR the scooter.
And again, must one point out more media than protestors here?
I call ATTENTION WHORE BS, more than anything. Jeesh
Yeah, a little misleading. That is what was being reported at the time. The NLG observer that I have contact with will not discuss the details for ‘legal reasons.’ He was walking within 10’ of this incident.
For a “legal observer” to become part of the theatrical movement reflects poorly on the concept of legal observers. We have his name, it might be worth reporting to the bar (as if they will do anything other than ignore it).
I watched the video; at that speed the scooter will not even run over someone's leg. A leg is a sufficiently large object, and scooter's wheels are small. Anyone who ever rode scooters knows that. (The reason for that is geometry.) The scooter will simply stop; it would take some power from the engine to actually climb over the leg - and once you are over the scooter will run like a bat from hell, with the engine's power now not needed to lift half of the scooter off the ground. That acceleration is not in evidence.
That's why the LEO just put the scooter on the kickstand and dismounted - he knew that both wheels are on the ground and they haven't ran over anyone's leg. The guy was quick to move his leg under the scooter, but that's not a crime.
This was staged to bring attention to the cause, and it worked - the YouTube is full of comments of other hippies that want the LEO drawn and quartered - apparently for attempting to investigate why a man is screaming.
I think the indecision of the mayor will lead to bigger problems, and soon. Protesters can't stay in the holding pattern forever, especially when the winter starts. They will be inventing a casus belli; this is just one weak attempt at that. It will take just one Molotov cocktail or some gunshots (merely for the noise) to turn this mess into a worse kind of a mess.