Quote (DizzyBusiness @ Oct 23 2023 07:39am)
They are stupid for blocking a roadway, not aggressors. They weren't randomly attacking cars, the dude tried to push through them, try that with any group of people and see what happens, I bet even the non terrorists will react poorly. This is why cops should be at events like these, to stop this exact sort of situation from happening.
What exactly is the legality of this type of protest? I've seen dozens from the US and the cops never seem to stop them and in this situation they were specifically told not to get involved.
While he was "just trying to get through" he also got out of his still moving car (in a crowd of people mind you) and started waving a knife around.
You're an aggressor when you actively surround someone's vehicle, chase them down and attack them.
I feel like this kind of understanding is so primitive it should be engrained into the psyche of not just humans but any multicellular creature or lowly protozoa on this planet. When one living creature uses its locomotive capabilities to propel itself towards another living creature and attempt to do it harm, the former is the aggressor, not the latter.
The guy was in his vehicle when a mob of rioters folded in around him on all sides, surrounding him. They aggressively approached him. Surrounded him. Chased him. Attacked him. He used what tools were at his disposal to escape their attack.
The guy in the car was not operating an industrial strength electromagnet to draw a mob of rioters with piercings, jewelry and metal plates on their bones towards him against their will. He is not the dark seer from dota 2 casting vacuum. He is not an inescapable gravitational singularity collapsing our planet inwards. Every single person who approached his vehicle did so willfully and illegally, as members of a rioting mob.
This post was edited by Goomshill on Oct 23 2023 07:02am