[taxcontrol]

If I were a member of the jury, I would have a really hard time finding the driver guilty.

[raiderboy]

He was attacked with a baseball bat!!!!! You can see it!! Self defense escape from a deadly assault!!

[Alberta's Child]

If I were a member of the jury I'd have a hard time convicting him even if I thought he deliberately rammed his car into that crowd of people in an attempt to cause as much carnage as possible.

It's the engineer in me. Anyone in a crowd that blocks a street is really asking for trouble and has no business complaining when the sh!t hits the fan and a motorist uses the street the way it was designed to be used.

[Sam Gamgee]

The person killed? Were they ANTIFA?

[pepsionice]

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.