[calcowgirl]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002288984_ndig26.html

Seattle Times
May 26, 2005

Garden Grove, Calif.
Driver rams protesters at Minuteman speech

At least two people were injured and at least eight arrested yesterday in Garden Grove after a motorist drove into a crowd of 300 demonstrators protesting a speech by the founder of the Minuteman Project, authorities said.

The Minuteman Project is a conservative citizens group that patrols the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to stop illegal immigration.

A man and a woman were struck and injured by the motorist, who had attended the speech by James Gilchrist and was leaving when protesters began hitting his van with placards and other objects. The driver, who was not identified but spoke to a KCAL-TV reporter, said he gunned his engine to get away from the crowd. The man was arrested.

[DumpsterDiver]

And excerpt from KESQ News Channel 3:

Two hurt, eight arrested in Orange County protest against Minuteman Project
May 25, 2005

After the speech, a driver trying to leave the club slowly drove through the crowd and two people fell and suffered minor injuries. The protesters surrounded the van and started banging on it.

The driver, Hal Netkin, was arrested for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon. At least eight protesters were arrested for investigation of felony assault.

[Nea Wood]

Driver rams protesters

Gee, the Seattle Times isn't too biased, is it? Every other report has Netkin slowly driving his car forward. The Seattle Times makes it look like he deliberately rammed into people!

[SierraWasp]

Well... As Tom McClintock just said a few minutes ago on KSFO... "If you will not control your borders, you don't even have a country! The most basic function of our Federal Government is shamefully being shirked!"

[Robert Drobot]

Where were the cops. Had they been doing crowd control the useful idiots would not have been injured.

[repubpub]

I am currently exchanging emails with a guy who works at the Seattle Times about how irresponsible they are for the Minuteman headline. Here is a snippet of his email, "I can't verify every fact because I wasn't there, but the headline appears to be accurate based on the report. The story came from the Los Angeles Times. We reported what they sent us. We publish news, as reported by other news publications.

He now wants me to do his job and send him specifics and sources.

Howa