Trucker Facing Charges For Driving Into Protesters

Well the driver has rights also and a right to stay safe. The protesters were on the interstate and many protesters have been violent. The driver did nothing wrong the police should and protesters were at fault for this incident.

 

Agreed,those are the rights we all have.

True to a point.

Had he stopped way before he was close the protesters...... then your statement would be true.
He had the choice to stop or to drive on.
He choose the latter which was wrong.

They were illegal in their blocking off the highway.
I don't know if any or none were punished for breaking the law.

BUT none off the above gave the truckdriver the right to do what he did.





Now had he stopped before and the protesters attacked him ,going after him so to say, then it becomes a different story.
Then it is self defence.

 

Well you're presuming the road was blocked before the truck driver got to the protesters. It's on the police to properly block a road. .

 

No.
I'm asuming the truckdriver has his eyes open and sees what the 4wheelers in front off him have seen.
They did stop ,none were harmed.

 

Well he's probably concerned for his safety also since many protesters are violent.

 

If he was scared off the protesters,why did he drive at them and not away from them.
Or stop long before he was close to them?

 

We dont really know cause we weren't there

 

"Hey, park here in front of this mob. Wait patiently and allow them to do as they please. Whatever you do, don't preserve your own life."

There's no way I'd even consider slowing down within a quarter mile of a mob like that. I know, and I'd like to think you know how long it takes to get up to speed in a loaded semi.

If I were standing within 50 feet of a stopped semi and wanted to get through a window to the driver I know without a doubt that I could do it.

If you think that waiting for the mob to turn violent is the best way to deal with that situation then you would be putting your life in their hands, something that an reasonable person shouldn't do.

I would say that if a criminal mob were within a quarter mile of my truck that I would view that as a direct threat to my saftey. We're not talking about actual civil rights protesters organizing for peaceful demonstrations within the boundaries of their permits. These are well documented violent criminals, burning down businesses, burning police vehicles, attacking innocent diners, brutally beating innocent bystanders and in some cases shooting innocent civilians as well as police. Did I forget to mention molotov ####tails?

The mob proved they have no regard for human life by blocking a freeway. The driver shouldn't have to appease the mob out of sympathy for their cause nor their carelessness. He should protect his life and the lives of his family by any means necessary.

A few scenarios where 20 or 30 violent criminals end up getting mowed over on the freeway could prove useful in educating people that clearly were never taught or chose not to listen about how crosswalks work.

If my kid were to go play on the freeway and get hit by a car the only person at fault would be me and my kid. Me for not teaching them properly and the kid for not using common sense.

These criminals disrupting commerce could be slowing the delivery of a much needed delivery of goods that save lives. Medical equipment, fuel for emergency vehicles or any number of items that someone elsewhere pays taxes for the right to have their goods shipped on a highway that the trucks pay taxes to use. There's near infinite ways to look at how the violent mob is putting people's lives in jeopardy simply by being on the highway.

Imagine you or a family member were in a medical transport and needed to get to a nearby hospital for live saving equipment. There's a very good reason why we pay taxes to use the highways.

The mob posed both a direct and indirect threat to the driver the moment they stepped onto the highway. The mob posed a threat to every tax paying citizen that could potentially rely on that stretch of highway in an emergency.

This is how I see these situations.
Try standing in front of people at the grocery store and telling them they can't go down the aisle. Sure you'll get quite a few pushovers that will move along but eventually someone will laugh in your face and walk right through your pathetic attempt at social justice.

Martin Luther King jr. would despise these criminals for the disservice being done to his hard work.

 

Most off what Martin Luther King jr did was illegal.(simple fact not a political statement)