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VIDEO: Protesters Attacked Charlottesville Driver’s Car With Baseball Bat
departmentofmemes.com ^ | Aug 13,2017 | departmentofmemes.com

Posted on 08/13/2017 5:08:25 PM PDT by NoLibZone

On August 12, a driver drove his vehicle into a crowd of “anti-racist” protesters, killing one woman and injuring 19 other individuals. The suspect has been identified as James Alex Fields, Jr.

Department of Memes reported that police officers in Charlottesville believed the driver was not acting maliciously, suggesting he was scared by the protesters on every side of his vehicle and he did not know what to do.


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: antifa; assault; charlottesville; departmentofmemes; flagpole; jamesalexfields; jamesfields; radicalleft; reginalddenny
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To: sargon

To quote Sgt Friday, “Just the facts”. I have to remark that your two exhibits are positively the worst videos of the incident I have seen.


161 posted on 08/14/2017 5:36:37 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute

... the woman being killed as she is pinned between the rear of the car and the parked truck....

You mean the one with the baseball bat who was beating on his trunk?


162 posted on 08/14/2017 5:36:46 PM PDT by McGruff (From now on call it McCaincare)
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To: McGruff

Yeah.


163 posted on 08/14/2017 5:45:15 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute
To quote Sgt Friday, “Just the facts”. I have to remark that your two exhibits are positively the worst videos of the incident I have seen.

Why do you have to remark that?

Those links were initially posted by someone else. I agree that it would be nice to see them in higher definition, although I doubt it would change any facts...

164 posted on 08/14/2017 6:41:37 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: sargon

I have, through my lurking at 4 chan, seen a number of videos of the event. As I posted, yours were the worst of all I have seen in conveying any sense of what might have happened. Please bear in mind I am not accusing you of cherry picking the worst only of having sought what appear to be the least informative.


165 posted on 08/14/2017 6:45:11 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute
Please bear in mind I am not accusing you of cherry picking the worst only of having sought what appear to be the least informative.

Well that's patently false as well...

166 posted on 08/14/2017 6:49:02 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: combat_boots
Thanks. Just now saw it. Was busy with other stuff earlier. Definitely not a baseball bat.

I'm only referring to the guy swinging the flag pole at the moving car, not the stuff about the reflections in the car's bumper.


167 posted on 08/14/2017 8:35:45 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary--REAL Russia-US collusion! (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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To: wastoute

I, for one, appreciate your fact gathering efforts.


168 posted on 08/14/2017 9:38:17 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (So Long Obie)
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To: Jane Long

I understood her comment about the black friend to be in response to the claim her son was a racist. I didn’t take it to mean they were travelling together.


169 posted on 08/14/2017 9:42:45 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (So Long Obie)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I think he ran into the preexisting accident between the BMW and that third vehicle. He probably hooked bumpers with the beamer.


170 posted on 08/14/2017 9:49:17 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (So Long Obie)
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To: ArmstedFragg

What car hit him?

https://www.allenbwest.com/2017/08/14/new-shock-theory-emerges-charlottesville-drivers-motive-blowing-minds/


171 posted on 08/15/2017 2:16:24 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ArmstedFragg

http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/08/14/charlottesville-police-chief-presser-regret-sot.cnn/video/playlists/charlottesville-white-nationalist-rally/

Who was driving the van?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4789682/Drone-footage-shows-man-crashing-car-alt-right-rally.html


172 posted on 08/15/2017 2:26:46 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

Didn’t see a vehicle hit him. He got hit with that flagpole, which seemed to be a common tactic of the demonstrators to get a car to stop. If you look carefully at the drone footage, you’ll see somebody hit the left rear side of the van just as it starts moving forward.


173 posted on 08/15/2017 12:16:59 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (So Long Obie)
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To: taxcontrol

If you watch all the clips...the kid is guilty at best of reckless driving (misdemeanor in VA).

When he drives into the crowd and you have the video from right side of the vehicle running...there’s three seconds as he stops, and then three to four ‘thugs’ jump upon the rear of his car....with baseball bats. I see something resembling a hammer, and then you see the window on the rear broke. This goes on for about three to four seconds, then you see this young lady that runs from the left of the screen toward the rear of the vehicle, and just as she’s preparing to jump on the back of the vehicle, you see the reverse lights come on.

The kid is preparing to reverse out, and the girl is in some forward motion on the rear...she’ll be carried backward with the motion about fifteen feet and tossed between the car and that parked black truck. I think she’s pinned or squeezed between the vehicles.

In a jury situation, once you see the three or four thugs hammering away on his car...the prosecution has mostly an unwinnable case. Then you toss on the behavior of the young lady who thinks that by jumping on the rear....you will stop the vehicle. She guessed wrong.

Go and try to find a jury to convict the kid...it just won’t happen. They may try to convince him to accept manslaughter by vehicle, and take four years in prison as a plea deal. I’d say no...go for full jury and walk away from this episode.

For any of these people who attend these protest actions....if your intent is to do something stupid and die today, it’s not worth that. I feel sorry for her, but you just can’t put yourself into a position where the driver is under a threat and must react.


174 posted on 08/17/2017 2:53:18 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: redcatcherb412

Looks like the rear window has already been damaged by a bat .


175 posted on 08/19/2017 9:08:55 AM PDT by Phosgood (Send in the Clowns...but Wait, they're here!! >..<)
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