Tanker Truck barrels into Minneapolis protesters

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At least as a bonus, there is probably a gun rack with a loaded rifle attached to the window.

Not to mention a igloo cooler in the bed of the truck with a 30 pack of Bud Light on ice,and one opened beer in the console for when you hit the back roads and there are no cops about.

Protesters occupying the road does not amount to a legal defence when you intentionally drive into them.

Forget the back roads, a cooler full of beer and a fully loaded firearm just makes looting all the more fun. We driving into the middle of the city. The cops may even thank us if we give them a couple of beers.

Give the cops some coke too,they just love to do lines on the dashboard of the cruiser.

So THAT'S the reason I keep wanting some powdered donuts day after day from this small local bakery and don't get the same enjoyment out of Krispy Kreme or Dunkin Donuts.

In my mind, the only legitimate protest is to go home and write your Congressman.

And for those who can't write, they should be learning to write instead of protesting.

As a Minnesota resident, I can say that something smells fishy here. The incident occurred just before 6pm CT and the road was supposed to be closed at 5pm CT. The articles are saying that the driver got ahead of the state patrol closing the road but it does not take an hour to drive south from I694 near Blaine to Downtown Minneapolis at the speed this truck was going and on an open road. This road also usually is crowded with vehicles at that time of day, even on a Sunday so the driver, if he was familiar with the road (and he was from the area) had to know that something was up.

I have a feeling that the State Patrol did not put up the barriers in time and the driver had no clue they were driving into a protest. He was probably going over the speed limit and when he saw the protesters, he immediately sounded the horn and the protesters were smart enough to move out the way.

This is probably more incompetence that we have been seeing from the Minnesota State Patrol this past weekend (they also have not figured out yet that you are not supposed to arrest members of the media doing their job) because there is no accountability for the police which is the crux of the issue.

If you don't mind my elaborating on your suggestion, learn not just to write, but learn to write very articulately. I get the feeling without that extra word, some may confuse the congressman's office if they simply write an email that simply says "I can't breathe."

It's a good thing you're not in a position to interpret the Constitution because your understanding of what are acceptable forms of protest is objectively incorrect.

Did the trucker know? Cause it takes while for trucks to go from 70mph to zero.
People shouldn’t block highways, cars and trucks are going fast on highways by time they see people it’s too late to stop in time.

That depends if a group of people surround a car preventing any escape that’s legally kidnaping and you can use lethal force to get away as your life is in danger.

If you're able to accelerate to a high rate of speed before striking them that's not the situation, isn't relevant and won't amount to a defence for his actions because it doesn't describe his actions. He's just another James Alex Fields.

Don’t see anything to show they accelerated. From what I seen it seems more likely they were coming down the highway saw the crowd and stopped as fast as they could
If they wanted to run over people they wouldn’t stopped.
I watched streams from my city and saw the streamers and other lie about what happen. I’m like wrf it’s on the film we can see your lying.

What I’ve seen on videos and the stream I watched is rioters bullying people and then making threats of terrorizing them based on zero evident and loads of assumptions.

Rioters destroying property of innocent people and businesses is unlawful and should be dealt with (nobody is cheering when some dude is stomping on somebodies car or damaging a shop front of a small business).

But I am not sure how you are trying to conflate rioting with a fool driving a truck being justified in driving into a crown knowing full well he might have killed people because he was irritated.

As I said before, he was very lucky they did not beat him into a pulp.

Then you should have no problem proving his truck was sitting still and he accelerated. Video doesn’t show that just the truck going it the crowd and stopping as fast as truck can safely.
Lots of people are cheering on the riots and does othing cars even the mob attacks on innocent people. It’s sick