Riverside protesters struck in hit-and-run

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28. "it was a push through, not a hit and run"

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You've got quite a way with words!

He plowed right into the crowd at a considerable speed -- too fast for people in the middle to see what was happening and get out of the way, for sure.

[font color = red]On Edit:[/font] I thought you were talking about the Minneapolis Nov. 25 one, which is what's in the video above. Later I noticed your comment was directed at the OP, which is about the Riverside one. I looked at the video in the OP, it doesn't show the vehicle at all, so I can't comment with certainty whether it was a "push through", whatever that is. But any vehicle going into a crowd at faster than 1/2 mph without advance notice is very dangerous! People in the middle of even a small bunch of people have almost no mobility.

As for some of the comments here -- I don't believe in deliberately blocking freeways or intersections either. But more generally, when there is a march of more than a few dozen, the crowd has a momentum, and its impossible for someone in the middle of the crowd to do anything but march along, at least in a short amount of time -- it takes someone in the middle some time to work their way to the outside of the crowd and escape. But if the march is orderly -- marshalls and police blocking off intersections while the crowd marches through -- that's First Amendment to me. Just like regular parades.