UDATED: Pickup Truck appears to run down pro-choice protestors in Cedar Rapids

[tenderfoot]

Last edited Fri Jun 24, 2022, 09:52 PM - Edit history (1)

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UPDATED:
so the guy who tried to run people over with his $75,000 truck in cedar rapids needed $1.2mil from the government to make payroll and there just so happened to be enough left over for a big truck with vanity plates a few months later?

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[rzemanfl]

1. Get a vanity plate, then hit women with your truck.

Fuck this guy. Prosecute his ass.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Wraptor is going to jail.

[applegrove]

3. That's awful.

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/truck-runs-over-womans-foot-during-roe-v-wade-protest-rally-crowds-abortion-pedestrian-hit-vehicle-plows-into
Truck runs over woman's foot during Roe v. Wade protest
by Valeree Dunn
Friday, June 24th 2022

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. They want us dead.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R

[David__77]

7. Much political violence is coming

…

[JanMichael]

11. That thought crossed my mind when I heard the SCROTUS ruling.

I have a bad feeling about what is going to happen now.

[Treefrog]

8. Iowa.

Whoda thought?

[bullwinkle428]

12. Republicans have had near-total control of the state for years, so it

shouldn't really come as a shock to anyone.

[electric_blue68]

24. Not a surprise. Have a long time on line liberal Iowan friend

[Aristus]

13. That's not very pro-life...

[ruet]

14. Isn't It Weird?

The Left is counseled to avoid violence at all costs by their leadership yet I never hear the same from the leadership of the Right.

[Evolve Dammit]

16. Thats a fact

[Takket]

15. what parcipitated this i wonder

were they marching in the street and he just tried to push through?

did he yell something at him and they went to confront the truck?

i only ask because the right has made mowing down protestors basically legal in places like Florida (i know this is Iowa) but a right wing statehouse in Iowa could try to do the same thing to portray the driver as a victim of a mob, afraid for his life

[wnylib]

19. The OP says that they were crossing the street.

No provocation there. He saw them crossing and drove the truck into them.

The video shows people running up to the truck after the fact, when they saw what he was doing.

[IronLionZion]

17. Pro-lifers will kill people without hesitation

[DFW]

28. "Pro-Life" is usually so false

Anyone using the slogan should be sued as violators of the "Truth in Advertising" Act.

They are almost invariably, in my experience, at least one of the following (usually two or all three):

in favor of killing animals to eat them

in favor of the death penalty for humans

in favor of violence (including deadly violence) perpetrated on people who have beliefs other than their own

[Evolve Dammit]

18. Arrest him and charge with assault with a deadly weapon

[wnylib]

20. Attempted murder.

[Evolve Dammit]

30. Works for me

[Hav]

31. I'm close to thinking it should be treated as terrorism

It's not the first time this happens. It's an indiscriminate targeting of a group of people and it's a deliberate attempt to intimidate with no regard for human life.

[Evolve Dammit]

32. It certainly is that.

[Straw Man]

36. Actually ...

... any one of those people trying to stop the truck could have legally popped a cap in that asshole's head. From the Iowa criminal code:

704.7 Resisting forcible felony.
A person who reasonably believes that a forcible felony is being or will imminently
be perpetrated is justified in using reasonable force, including deadly force, against the
perpetrator or perpetrators to prevent or terminate the perpetration of that felony.

[Evolve Dammit]

37. That requires protesters to start carrying. May come to that. We are devolving rapidly.

[Solly Mack]

21. K&R

[Cha]

22. Rts TY!

💙💛

[lamp_shade]

25. I can't find any news of whether the driver has been located/arrested.

[dalton99a]

26. He was interviewed by the cops, but was not arrested

[lamp_shade]

27. No surprise there. Thanks.

[IronLionZion]

29. Most red states (including Iowa) passed laws protecting drivers who hit protestors

and arrest the protesters who block roads. So the protesters would get jail time, not the driver.

These laws were passed after the BLM protests a few years back when people really wanted to kill black people. I don't expect them to change it now that there are white women protesting. They're fine with running down liberals of all demographics.

[Bettie]

33. DH read a brief article

and I can't find it, but he's claiming he was in fear for his life from the violent mob...

They were young women crossing the street. At the crosswalk.

Cops have talked to him, I doubt he'll be charged.

[IronLionZion]

34. Young women are so dangerous

[Boomerproud]

35. Beyond outrageous.

I guess I will be reading and responding to more of this.