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Driver who tried to run over pedestrians near LA is killed by crowd, officials say
AMN ^ | 10/11/21 | Christopher Goffard

Posted on 10/12/2021 10:09:49 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

Detectives are investigating the death of a man who was pulled from his pickup truck and suffered “blunt force trauma” after trying to run people over on a Hawthorne sidewalk early Saturday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

The coroner’s office identified the man as Melguin Lopez Santos, 40, of Los Angeles. After an argument of some kind at a business in the 14200 block of Hawthorne Boulevard, Santos was asked to leave but instead climbed into his truck, accelerated onto a sidewalk and nearly ran down several patrons, authorities said.

Santos lost control of the vehicle and slammed into a tree, then into a building. People pulled him from his truck and a fight ensued, authorities said.

Hawthorne police officers responding to the scene shortly after midnight Friday found Santos on the ground, fatally injured. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: death; losangeles; roadrage; vigilantism
Melguin Lopez Santos?

He's definitely from Bakersfield.

1 posted on 10/12/2021 10:09:49 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Hawthorne?

Sound more like Lawndale (It’s right next door to Hawthorne, but really ghetto.)


2 posted on 10/12/2021 10:12:48 AM PDT by occamrzr06
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Score one for meaningful, efficient and swift law enforcement.


3 posted on 10/12/2021 10:16:07 AM PDT by matthew fuller (The Satanic Trinity- Obama, Soros and the Chinese Communist Party. )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Too bad.


4 posted on 10/12/2021 10:18:55 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (If the votes are a lie, they must de cert i fy!)
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The #ing Rats have set the stage for random violence and the inevitable vigilante justice.

#ing Rats.


5 posted on 10/12/2021 10:19:49 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The fascist regime is now so busy chocking America out by punishing political enemies and prosecuting thought crimes that the only true justice regular Americans can get own is vigilante justice.

Every murderer put in prison sentences the America public to pay ludicrous amounts of money for their incarceration for 10-20 years. All to keep the prison industry profitable and “public servants” well paid. only rich country can afford this extravaganza and under Biden America is becoming too poor to support it.


6 posted on 10/12/2021 10:22:30 AM PDT by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer
Well, can you put your hands in your head? Oh no
I said, “Dreamer, you’re nothing but a dreamer”
Well, can you put your hands in your head? Oh no

I said, “Far out, what a day, a year, a life it is”
You know, well you know you had it comin’ to you
Now there’s not a lot I can do


7 posted on 10/12/2021 10:22:31 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: occamrzr06

Yeah, I was thinking that far down Hawthorne was getting into Lawndale. I remember when it had the fake plastic lawn on the median. They got rid of it in 1988:

City maintenance workers in recent months have started removing the green polyethylene ground cover, manufactured by Monsanto Co., which was installed by the city in 1970.

Lawndale won a Monsanto plaque for the “World’s First Astro Grass Traffic Median Installation,” but the fake grass has proven to be more of a blight than a blessing.


8 posted on 10/12/2021 10:27:40 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Instant CAR-ma......................


9 posted on 10/12/2021 10:33:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

10 posted on 10/12/2021 10:34:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

This turned out like it should have.

It should happen more often ending this way in similar circumstances.

Instant street justice.

Still holding trial on the Cole bombers? That happened 20 years ago. Just another example of failed justice.


11 posted on 10/12/2021 10:38:32 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: occamrzr06

Where is Batman when we need him? If not The Caped Crusader, the Green Hornet and Kato? Someone needs to fill the void? No more Wyatt Earp’s left I guess? FBI has been changed into a Democrat KGB-they will be assassinating any one who supports Trump soon, rather than suppressing crime. To speak your mind is a crime.


12 posted on 10/12/2021 10:45:02 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: occamrzr06

Where is Batman when we need him? If not The Caped Crusader, the Green Hornet and Kato? Someone needs to fill the void? No more Wyatt Earp’s left I guess? FBI has been changed into a Democrat KGB-they will be assassinating any one who supports Trump soon, rather than suppressing crime. To speak your mind is a crime.


13 posted on 10/12/2021 10:45:02 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: matthew fuller

I love it when a story has a happy ending.


14 posted on 10/12/2021 10:46:20 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Hawthorne, Gardena, et al....It all sucks. South central continues moving westbound, not to mention southbound, eastbound and northbound.☺

They used to call the 405 the great white fence...Not so much nowadays.


15 posted on 10/12/2021 11:08:17 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Some problems solve themselves.


16 posted on 10/12/2021 11:11:52 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator

One less welfare sperm donor.


17 posted on 10/12/2021 11:14:55 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: matthew fuller

“Score one for meaningful, efficient and swift law enforcement.”
We are sure to see more of this.


18 posted on 10/12/2021 11:36:24 AM PDT by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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