OWS protestors run down by driver in self defense during Occupy the Oakland port

[Haakon]

Originally Posted by ambient

That protester may have been a dick, but the driver could have killed him - and running someone over in anger after they pound the hood of your car after you honked at them and nudged into them is NOT going to cut it as self defense in a court of law...the protester would have had to do more than that in order to make this argument hold weight.

And mind you, I'm not an OWS supporter. I don't like the violence that went down there the last few nights.

This wasn't one person standing in front of the car being a dick and pounding on the hood. This was one person who was part of a large crowd that was surrounding the car. Are you willing to become the next Reginald Denny? Or will you run over the dick who is arguably instigating a life threatening situation? These OWS "protests" seem to becoming more like the LA riots every day.

[lifelongMOgal]

Originally Posted by Haakon

This wasn't one person standing in front of the car being a dick and pounding on the hood. This was one person who was part of a large crowd that was surrounding the car. Are you willing to become the next Reginald Denny? Or will you run over the dick who is arguably instigating a life threatening situation? These OWS "protests" seem to becoming more like the LA riots every day.

That is absolutely the intent of Van Jones with the occupyOakland group. No doubt in my mind about it.

[GradyBaaBaa]

Its all for a good and just cause, just ask any left loon.

[ambient]

Originally Posted by Haakon

This wasn't one person standing in front of the car being a dick and pounding on the hood. This was one person who was part of a large crowd that was surrounding the car. Are you willing to become the next Reginald Denny? Or will you run over the dick who is arguably instigating a life threatening situation? These OWS "protests" seem to becoming more like the LA riots every day.

Look at the video - your timing is a bit off. They surrounded the car after the driver floored it and ran over the protester. Before that, people were continuing to pass by.

At any rate, HERE'S a case where the driver was justified because he was already in motion driving along when some idiot protesters in DC jumped onto and in front of the moving car in an effort to stop it.

Three morons taken to the hospital with injuries, driver not charged.

Police: 3 struck by car at Occupy DC protest - Yahoo! News