Tanker Truck barrels into Minneapolis protesters

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I'd argue if you're in the process of slamming your car into or through a crowd you've ceased to be an innocent person.

Some dude last night thought imitating other people driving there cars into crowds would be cool,so he tried it himself,hit two parked cars and dies at the scene. People just keep getting dumber

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There's very fine people on both sides of the debate over whether not injecting or drinking household cleaners is a good idea. On the one hand you have the left-leaning medical establishment insisting 'you will die' and on the other hand Dear Leader God-Emperor says it might be a good idea worth investigating.

Just to update the situation, the police released the Truck driver from jail because the 36 hour hold period ran out (the authorities have 36 hours to bring charges or the person has to be released).

Video has been released but none of it is timestamped which suggests that the State Patrol and MNDOT is trying to hid the fact that they did not enforce the Governor's order to close the highways at 5pm CT. The people on the highway had assumed it would be closed by then based on what Governor Walz said. There were other cars besides the truck. The truck was empty and I think the driver was trying to get home before everything shut down. Nothing suggests that he tried to do this on purpose.

My opinion is that if the trucker is charged with anything, it will be a traffic violation because driving 70mph in that area is too fast, even for normal conditions. Probably along the lines of driving without reasonable care or Speed imprudent to conditions (he should have noticed people were driving the wrong way for some reason and had already started to slow down).

The faster the vehicle is traveling, the longer it will take to come to a complete stop. In comparison to the figures noted above, a passenger vehicle will take about 316 feet from the awareness point when traveling 65 miles per hour. The semi truck takes about 525 feet before coming to a complete stop.

Most highways 65mph is the speed limit
So if anyone’s at fault it’s the police for failing to set road blocks to stop traffic on the highways and the protesters for thinking it’s a smart idea to run into a highway where cars go 65mph.
Chars or trucks on highways won’t stop I time that’s a known fact. It’s why it’s illegal to walk on highways.

If a bunch of people protested on some rail tracks would you blame the train for not being able to stop ?

A controlled study in 2000 found average driver reaction brake time to be 2.3 seconds
May not seem like a lot but when going 65mph it’s not long and then with taking 525 to come to stop.

It seems clear to me the driver had no idea there were people on wrong. And once saw there was reacted and breakers. Certainly the distance traveled looks to be that 525 feet before the truck stopped. Police and news said the driver was scared and shoot up,.
Like anyone would be having just almost hit people nit knowing they’d be there.

So tired of people jumping to concludes. Locals some car speed by on the road near the protesters so they all like racist a**hole, get their plates let’s ruin their lives.
Why cause they didn’t want to be caught in the protest, habe their windows broke and get beat up. The horror how dare. They. Another incent day before a protest jumped out in front of a slow moving car climbed in it and begun smashing the windshield and another came up behind it and smashed the back windows. Why? Well they were driving on road when the protest came up to and surrounded them.
The protest is erratic with no goal destination or route, how the f**k are people suppose to avoid it? And wirh people being assaulted and pulled out of their cars I’d speed though too.
Mind you the protesters were on the sidewalks. No where near the road or car.