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Student protester hit by car as she blocked freeway sues UC San Diego
The College Fix ^ | 1/3/2018 | Mark McGreal

Posted on 01/03/2018 11:47:13 AM PST by simpson96

The University of California-San Diego is now embroiled in a personal injury lawsuit after an election protest gone wrong.

Mariana Flores, a sophomore at UCSD, was demonstrating against Donald Trump’s victory on a busy San Diego freeway when a vehicle hit her. The accident crushed her pelvis, fractured her leg, and caused other serious injuries, reported The Guardian campus newspaper.

Flores, in her suit filed in late November, partly blames campus officials for her injury, arguing they should have stopped the protest before it got dangerous, according to news reports.(snip)

In an interview with The Guardian, Gene Sullivan, Flores’s lawyer, asserted that the university planned, organized and knew the protest was happening for hours and did nothing to stop it.

“According to Sullivan, not doing anything and failing to act is legally the same thing as supporting the protest,” the newspaper reported. “Sullivan further alleged that the protest was encouraged by people in positions of authority at the university, and that ‘if anyone that is in authority with the university – a [Residential Advisor] – says ‘let’s go,’ the university would be responsible.’”


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KEYWORDS: california; marianaflores; sandiego; uofcalifornia
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Well, the gene pool ALMOST got a little cleaner...
1 posted on 01/03/2018 11:47:13 AM PST by simpson96
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‘They shoulda stopped me before something stoopid happened!’


2 posted on 01/03/2018 11:48:19 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: simpson96

But but mah free speech!!!!


3 posted on 01/03/2018 11:48:27 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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One of the many reasons I hate California


4 posted on 01/03/2018 11:49:17 AM PST by lesko
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To: simpson96

She gets the Darwin award for protesting on a busy freeway.


5 posted on 01/03/2018 11:49:46 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: simpson96

Anyone ever see the riots that happen when authority tries to stop millitant leftist rallies that are already in progress?

Ask Obama if he recommends just taking a pill instead of getting the surgery.


6 posted on 01/03/2018 11:50:20 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Parley Baer

...for playing in the street.


7 posted on 01/03/2018 11:50:53 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: simpson96
Mariana Flores, a sophomore at UCSD, was demonstrating against Donald Trump’s victory on a busy San Diego freeway when a vehicle hit her.

News Of The Tautological

8 posted on 01/03/2018 11:51:48 AM PST by relictele
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To: simpson96

I think that more like her should go play in traffic.


9 posted on 01/03/2018 11:52:12 AM PST by windsorknot
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partly blames campus officials for her injury, arguing they should have stopped the protest before it got dangerous

Another Deplorable gets her wings.

On the one hand, screw her. Play in traffic, you deserve what you get. On the other hand, screw UCSD for, yes, not stopping the protest. It's long past time that these universities suffer the consequences of pandering to snowflakes.

10 posted on 01/03/2018 11:52:22 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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Thank goodness my dad taught me, when I was about 6, not to play in traffic.


11 posted on 01/03/2018 11:52:38 AM PST by circlecity
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I have heard lawyers say jokingly “If you are going to hit somebody with your car be sure to kill them.” Paying off the family of low income dead person is a lot cheaper than paying for injuries and long term care.


12 posted on 01/03/2018 11:52:53 AM PST by forgotten man
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It’s also one of the reasons to hate the doctrine of “comparative negligence”. Even if a jury finds the university 1% liable under her silly claim, 1% of her injury is still likely to be sum enough to make the litigation profitable.


13 posted on 01/03/2018 11:53:08 AM PST by PUGACHEV
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“According to Sullivan, not doing anything and failing to act is legally the same thing as supporting the protest,” the newspaper reported.

Good. Hold Berkley liable for the rioting/looting their teachers and students committed.

14 posted on 01/03/2018 11:53:31 AM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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You jump in front of my car when you,
you know all the time
Ninety miles an hour, girl, is the speed I drive
You tell me it’s alright, you don’t mind a little pain
You say you just want me to take you for a drive

You’re just like crosstown traffic
So hard to get through to you
Crosstown traffic
I don’t need to run over you
Crosstown traffic
All you do is slow me down
And I’m tryin’ to get on the other side of town


15 posted on 01/03/2018 11:54:14 AM PST by Boogieman
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It’s all the school officials’ fault because they weren’t there to keep her from doing something stupid.


16 posted on 01/03/2018 11:55:01 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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"Mariana Flores", eh?

What are the chances she is an illegal alien?

17 posted on 01/03/2018 12:01:49 PM PST by doorgunner69 (No video seems to happen a lot when they shoot somebody..........)
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To: MileHi

In a rational tort claim of this nature, they would first have to show the school had a duty to stop the protest. IMO they did not. Furthermore, once this nitwit left the school grounds, on her own accord, she was on her own. My last comment: too bad she did not terminate.


18 posted on 01/03/2018 12:02:59 PM PST by Mouton (The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
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This selfish little brat would not want me on that jury.


19 posted on 01/03/2018 12:03:46 PM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Beer! Because you can't drink bacon!)
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To: simpson96

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. However, I am glad she survived, but she has compounded her sins by launching this silly lawsuit.


20 posted on 01/03/2018 12:04:35 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Happy New Year! Screeeeewwwww 2017!)
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