Most the front end damage is from rear ending another vehicle. Had the two vehicles not been there; lots more people would have went flying.
Something is all wrong with this. Who takes a nice car like this (if they own it) and trashes it like this committing murder in the process. It makes no sense. Normal thinking people don't do this.
Only of I were running for my life would I even think of using a car like that, especially a Challenger.
The car seems to have been his pride and joy.
My own wild-___ speculative guess is that he took a wrong turn into one group or the other and panicked.
My wife and I have the unusual experience of being caught near the epicenters of two *different* urban riots in the 1960s. Yes, rioters do attack cars. Yes, it's difficult/impossible to turn a car around on a narrow city street that was designed before the invention of the motor vehicle.
I don't think most twenty-somethings expect to spend the rest of their lives behind bars. Also, the posting that he wished Trump had been aborted seems to fit more with the sentiments of a vacuous twenty-something college kid than of a right wing terrorist willing to be sentenced to lifetime incarceration for "the cause".