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Who's to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives into His Students?

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by zzrrt

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The description reminds me of the Renée Good shooting. Both highly videotaped, intentional blocking of a departing vehicle, an official inexplicably releasing what many say is self-damning video, but people tend to see only what they already believed in the videos.

by metalman

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by sameers

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by silexia

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If you try to trap a person and possibly attack them, even if they are in a car and you are outside of it, you may be harmed as they defend themselves.
Self defense has always been permissible. You don't get special rights to physically restrain (kidnap) someone just because they are in a car.
So dumb.

by LarsDu88

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Aw fuck why did it have to be my alma mater.
Posting here before this politicized content gets autoremoved.

by Georgelemental

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by leephillips

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I saw the videos. He didn’t “drive into” anyone. Some idiots stepped in the path of a moving vehicle. Some, apparently, deliberately in order to get bumped, so that they could play the victim.

by bobjordan

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Surrounding a vehicle purposely impeding their exit path is by itself enough for me to generally side with the person being impeded. Further, if it also includes harassing and intimidating them, I refuse to agree that this behavior is acceptable and just write it off as protected speech like the author does. People have a fundamental responsibility to protect themselves, when forced into a situation like this. I remember watching the attack on Reginald Denny during the Rodney King riots and if you haven't seen that but agree with the author of this article, go watch what happened to Reginald Denny. This behavior of harassing drivers should not be normalized as acceptable in society. People that choose to do this and end up getting hurt, basically asked for it.