OT Black Man In Minnesota Dies After Cop Kneels On His Neck/ Portland Riots

I guess the state troopers closed the highway. The driver probably just didn't give a fuck, in addition to possibly be high on drugs or drunk.

https://www.wsaz.com/2020/07/04/police-2-women-hit-by-car-on-seattle-highway-amid-protests/

 

and he runs like a chubby 10 year old girl with flip flops on

 

It time the trouble makers (not peaceful protesters) stop they're nightly disrespect for property. At some point they need to divert their energy to helping the cause rather than hurting it. Unless thats their intensions, which it colukld be.

 

watching the video closely. You cN see him seem to brake and swerve right to avoid the van. In swerving right, he looks to maybe start sliding, tried to correct back onto the road and right into the females.

Question. Was the highway closed on the entrance ramp he used? If not, how owuld he know it is closed untiL he comes up on the parked van?

ever been on the highway at 60 and come up on a parked vehicle? They come FAST!

people should not be on the freeways without government approval and full highway and onramp closures.

Im sorry. Protest On the capital lawn. Not on Your neighbors commute to work....or get a full permit first.

 

looks like the freeway was closed....

How did he get on the freeway? Did he blast through barricades?

 

the police believe he entered the freeway going the other direction, which was not closed by barricade, and crossed the median to change direction

further, there were street lights and the area was well illuminated. Unless he was half blind he should have had no trouble seeing the white van. I mean, that video wasn't shot thru a night vision lens, it's shot from a couple hundred yards away, and there's no problem seeing not only the white van but also the people. The guy was either criminally reckless or pissed off and targeting the protestors.

there's no practical reason to be stretching for excuses for what this driver did. I'm kind of tired of the protests myself. But at the same time I realize that this is about the 10th time over the last 40 years there have been national protests, and riots, about racism and police misconduct....and nothing seems to change. In fact, if anything, the police seem more militant, more racist, and less accountable right now than they ever have been. So the rationalization for the protests continuing may be justified.

 

when intoxicated you dont see or think clearly.
Its all around sad no doubt. If he did what is reported them he is a top shelf idiot, possibly an attempted murderer. Intent will be tough to prove if he was intoxicated though.

 

one of the women struck by the car has died

 

Whatever, it should not get the death penalty.

 

It's called manslaughter and drunk drivers get convicted of it whenever they kill someone when drunk driving.

 

It shouldn't, but it did.

It is ironic that they were protesting Black Lives Matter and were ultimately killed by a black man.

 

The person who died is non-binary. They/them is their preferred pronoun.