Angry Californian Mows Down Protester
It’s disturbing, but watch this:
This happened in days ago in Los Angeles when a group of rioters played a game of chicken with motorists.
What, exactly, did this woman think would happen when she stood in front of a moving car? She obviously believed the driver would do what other Californians do in this situation: Lock their doors, grit their teeth and inch slowly though the bellowing anarchists while the protesters scream, pound on their car and in some cases, jump on the roof.
What did she think would happen when she planted her feet in front of a moving car, put her hands on the hood and began pushing?
At the very least this crazed demonstrator greatly overestimated her strength.
Unfortunately, this woman encountered someone wasn’t playing. Perhaps he was on his way to work and would lose his job if he were late. Maybe he was rushing to see a dying relative in the hospital. Perhaps he wanted to catch a flight at LAX.
Perhaps he was terrified of the seething mob.
More likely, he’d had enough of anarchists.
Whatever the reason, the driver mashed the accelerator and mowed down the protester. It appears he drove over her leg.
Ouch. That’s gonna leave a mark.
The woman reportedly had surgery and is in stable condition.
My sympathies are not with her, however, they’re with the driver. Especially in California where he can be charged with a crime,
Most of us drive our cars when we need to get somewhere. To work, for instance. To appointments. To our kids’ schools when they’re sick. I once remember racing to the hospital where my mother lay dying. I would have mowed down anyone who got in my way that night.
Blocking traffic and bridges and tunnels is a tactic used by aggressive demonstrators who want to cause massive inconveniences. Sometimes the results are tragic. Last year, for instance, protesters shut down the Golden Gate Bridge preventing transplanted organs from being delivered to an airport.
Chances are, very sick people died because of that outrageous behavior.
I’ve never understood the tactic. Its aggressive and dangerous and blocking thoroughfares rarely engenders sympathy from the public.
In fact, it risks turning ordinary decent drivers into Mad Max.
One way to put an end to such civil disobedience is to levy huge fines on those who block roadways and toss them in jail.
Or states could do what Florida does: Make it legal to flatten protesters in the street.
I predict that there will be very few roads blocked by demonstrators in the Sunshine State.
