AP: Vehichle Plows into Protestors
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Source: Associated Press
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This is what happens - when a bad faith frigging POTUS -drags his feet to denounce the hate.
In case you have forgotten, Trump has always bragged about his "gene" pool.
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UPDATE..Youtube video of actual car hitting crowd & car
NOTE...Body goes flying over other car
See video at timestamp 2 minutes...Deliberateness
underpants
(182,829 posts)But I got it.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Sick chit
mahatmakanejeeves
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A car reportedly plowed into pedestrians on the Downtown Mall. Police alert suggested that several had broken legs.
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Fashion hint: wearing black gloves and a skateboard helmet does not make you look as if you are part of law enforcement. Neither does wearing a baseball helmet.
Car plows into crowd on Downtown Mall near Unite the Right rally site
The Daily Progress staff reports 37 min ago
Update, 1:48 p.m.
A gray vehicle has hit at least five pedestrians on the Downtown Mall near Urban Outfitters, according to media reports and police reports. A Daily Progress reporter at the scene said the car was pulled over by police. An emergency alert reported that several had broken legs.
Folks said counter protesters were hit by a vehicle as they turned the corner. Medics are here. #Charlottesville
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People are down on 4th Street. A silver Ford plowed into a crowd and allegedly backed into them again.
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Although Charlottesville is the county seat of Albemarle County, it is an independent city. Although independent cities exist in a few other states, Virginia has, by far, the majority of them. My guess is that the emergency response line for both entities is handled by one emergency communications center. Hence, Albemarle County found it necessary to post the emergency and non-emergency numbers.
Emergency Comms Center has activated non-emergency 979-INFO line. All calls relating to life threatening issues should still be made to 911.
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There's probably minimal staff at the Cavalier Daily, as school hasn't started up again. They're retweeting a lot, and chipping in an occasional original tweet. Such as:
Media update from City of Charlottesville
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Full dislosure: I am not in Charlottesville. I believe DUer Yonnie3 is in Charlottesville today.
Please avoid area of Water & 4th streets to allow medics access to the crash scene. More info will be released when available.
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CPD & VSP respond to 3-vehicle crash at Water & 4th streets. Several pedestrians struck. Multiple injuries. 1/2 #cvilleaug12
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#BREAKING: Pedestrians run by vehicle over at Water St. and 4th St. Several injuries reported.
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Video of car hitting anti-racist protestors. Let there be no confusion: this was deliberate terrorism. My prayers with victims. Stay home.
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Look at 0:21. That's not a Mustang. That's one of those new Dodge Challengers. With that level of front end damage, the driver won't stay hidden for long. If he had a front license plate, it came off in the collision or as he was backing away.
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Video of the Dodge Challenger striking the counter-protesters:
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This likely intentional car crash is VERY serious. Woman being brought to ambulance seemed unresponsive #Charlottesville
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workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Which state was it that passed a law sayin it was OK to hit protester with a car?
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Our whole world has gone nutz
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)We are staring to see the full price of that emerging.
Next up: Nuclear war with NK?
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Retrograde Infinity
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)My Dad and Uncles fought and killed Nazi's and other fascists in WW2.
Now they are marching down the streets of America shouting Blood and Soil...Blut und Boden!
I'm glad they didn't live to see what became of their generations supreme sacrifice for democracy.
shanny
(6,709 posts)after the Standing Rock DAPL protest.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)brooklynite
(94,597 posts)They passed a law saying somone in a public road a driving legally could not be the subject of a civil lawsuite by protestors blocking a public road...
...whixh is completely unrelated to what happened today.
jpak
(41,758 posts)GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)Get a wall built around every parcel of land with the Stars and Bars or a Trump sign (same dif) in the front yard?
We can make the 1% pay for it.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Can we get South Dakota to make it into law.
Irony
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-bills-protest-criminal-20170201-story.html
N.C. House Votes to Protect Drivers Who Hit Protesters
The bill will give drivers a false sense of entitlement to run over activists, some critics fear.
By Steven Nelson, Staff Writer | April 28, 2017, at 1:39 p.m.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-04-28/north-carolina-house-votes-to-protect-drivers-who-hit-protesters
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Like protestors is a regular issue in N.D.
Shheesshh
lunasun
(21,646 posts)TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Even if we were justified.
All things turned on their head
Aristus
(66,388 posts)to visit their shithole of a state.
All those complaints that South Dakota earns more tourist revenue.
Well, maybe take a look at your body of civil law and draw the logical conclusion...
C Moon
(12,213 posts)I wasn't celebrating that either, but that's why I read the headline again: it's always the white supremacists that are the terrorists.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)pathetic
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Blood all over the windshield of that car
christx30
(6,241 posts)The driver is going to jail pretty much forever. Glad his voting rights are going away, and he won't ever be able to touch a gun ever again. The world will be a better place.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)(And I don't see how it wasn't) that's assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or greatly harm minimum u would thing.
Although not a lawyer here.
And that's if the republicans in this state haven't passed a law OKing hitting protesters with your car!
See this: In North Dakota, it could become legal to hit a protester with your car
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-bills-protest-criminal-20170201-story.html
N.C. House Votes to Protect Drivers Who Hit Protesters
The bill will give drivers a false sense of entitlement to run over activists, some critics fear.
By Steven Nelson, Staff Writer | April 28, 2017, at 1:39 p.m.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-04-28/north-carolina-house-votes-to-protect-drivers-who-hit-protesters
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Shheesshh
christx30
(6,241 posts)But the driver sure as heck would be charged with a crime. Vehicular assault, attempted murder, grievous bodily harm, ect.
True Dough
(17,305 posts)discouraging. A bunch of racist elitists, some of them getting violent. They can't be allowed to prevail.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)You let it go, unaccountable...or you embolden.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I say you are absolutely right.
Those religious right freaks want a right wing dictatorship and this country under their very own shaira laws.
Ain't a dime's worth of difference between them. Both will use violence and terror to get to their theocratic horror state.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I'm becoming very violent myself. I want to write things that will get me banned from DU.
BigmanPigman
(51,609 posts)I attended an Impeachment March in San Diego on July 2 and the alt-right "Proud Boys" came 150 miles to incite violence and they were very good at it. I am a 5'1" pacifist and wanted to slap them stupid. There wasn't any violence though. It is not due to the presence of the cops who stood there and watched and allowed it to happen until the chief of police was called by a guest speaker/assembly person.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Sick FUCKING assholes!!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I lay all this on Trump and the republican party doorstep.
They are destroying this country day by day.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Comes profits
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,489 posts)FIRE AND FURY
Unite the Right torch rally ends in violence at the Rotunda
The Daily Progress staff reports 15 hrs ago
Members of the Alt-Right {sic} led a torch march through the grounds of the University of Virginia Friday night in Charlottesville, Va. Photo/Andrew Shurtleff/The Daily Progress
The building in the background is the Rotunda. The demonstrators are north of the Rotunda. They are facing University Avenue and a statue of Thomas Jefferson.
That's Old Cabell Hall in the background on the left. The low buildings across the middle of the picture form the West Lawn.
This is the statue of Jefferson facing University Avenue. The building across the street is Madison Hall.
....
Send news tips to news@dailyprogress.com, call (434) 978-7264, tweet us @DailyProgress or send us a Facebook message here.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)It's in the genes
The River
(2,615 posts)The original Pedestrian Mall blocked all side streets for the first 20+ years. They changed the policy in the early 00's and opened a few select side streets to cross traffic to easy congestion. Stupid move.
I lived there for 40 years and know every inch of the area. Hard to see some of the film footage.
chowder66
(9,073 posts)The view is where the two cars were when the car came speeding toward them hitting them. A person went flying over the top of the cars.
I have no words on how disgusting this is.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Do you have a link?
Still no explanation, I've seen, on how it happened (with one car re-ending the other)
chowder66
(9,073 posts)Response to chowder66 (Reply #33)
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deurbano
(2,895 posts)motorcycle. Senior/disability activists were briefly occupying the street in front of the federal building to peacefully protest the proposed Medicaid cuts (etc.) in the Senate health care bill, so a "white pride" identifying Road Rage Warrior took matters into his own hands:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4633180/The-nut-plowed-crowd-protesters.html
Guess it's the hottest new trend for terrorists around the world.
mainer
(12,022 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)The domestic muscle cars/pickup trucks/Jeeps, etc....are the panzers of.....I mean cars of choice for deplorables.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)The Daily Stormer Nazi group has been one of the main organizers and instigators of this shitshow, and they have a 'live updates' page linked from their front page.
The photo of the driver is contained in a tweet from one of their people, so it includes his twitter handle and other information that I do not want to give any free publicity to.
Wander over there at your own risk. Their whole site is a stomach-turning experience.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)It was leaking a trail of fluids when it backed away. After losing it's coolant it will overheat quickly. I hope they can get a frame from that video that shows the driver's face.
Be sure about one thing. At the next Nazi Trump rally there will be shooting. I'm amazed there was none at this one with all the open carry idiots there.
hexola
(4,835 posts)sandensea
(21,639 posts)Perhaps he or she was scared though.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,489 posts)He's left quite a trail of credit card purchases and videos. He's on videos at every place he stopped at.
Brand new Dodge Challenger too. A rental, maybe? I mean, not to make light of the situation, but who would use a brand new car to ram it into a crowd and another automobile?
hexola
(4,835 posts)recent video of the scene shows police marking vehicle positions with spraypaint - often done when a wreck involves fatality.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Naive counter-protesters would need a course in how to id real authorities.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)When The Donald snickers, taking delight.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)hexola
(4,835 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Trump is destroying the United States.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Trump is the result.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)llmart
(15,540 posts)we must ALWAYS tie this sort of thing to him and all the Republicans who sit idly by and allow him to incite violence.
hexola
(4,835 posts)The dudes name thats being floated around does not seem like the type, but...
Lets hope his car was stolen...or something..
Check the Freeper thread for details...I wont post it here.
Im not buying it...
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)hexola
(4,835 posts)Wow - look out for the dis-info crowd!
Who knows!
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)I'd take it with a huge grain of salt until police release a name of the suspect. Wouldn't be the first time they've doxed the wrong person.
cisco man
(26 posts)CanNOT be repeated enough!!! It's just going to get worse & worse.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)20 years of relentless propaganda -- defended on 1st Amendment grounds -- led to this.
The US population has been poisoned to the point where THIS is the nation that about 60 million Americans wanted.
I know that a lot of them didn't think it through, but that's just criminal negligence.
hexola
(4,835 posts)Hes posting on FB - just now.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Even in part