Rioters Beware! Keep Your Protests Peacful

[paulpablo]

you seem like a strong advocate of the stand-your-ground law.

Blocking traffic doesn't make it ok for people to get run over. Feeling intimidated by a crowd  also isn't a good enough reason to run over people. One can always open up a map and pick another route, and even then, if blocking traffic is a headache, there are law agents to arrest or disperse the crowd, there's no reason for a random person to run over another person just cause they are blocking the way.

There's definitely reasons that exist why someone should be run over for blocking the way.

If it's an organized protest then yeh I agree you can pick another route and police should disperse the crowd.

On the other hand there are situations that might not be as clear cut as that.  If a persons car is being blocked all of a sudden often the driver has no idea of the intent of the people blocking the path until the vehicle is stopped.  Then they will find out if they're going to get pulled out of the car and have rocks thrown at their head, or if it's a peaceful protest.  But they shouldn't have to wait for that to happen, in that instance running over the people blocking the way is justified.

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Tell that to the people who are being pulled out of their cars. Going after peaceful protesters and running them over is one thing, and should be prosecuted by the law. But if an out of control mob of riotous bastards surround MY truck with their clubs and Molotov cocktails, move out of the way. I'm not sticking around.

Then you'd be prosecuted for not exercising 'due care' under the law being considered.

And I see you're still having trouble differentiating 'protest' from 'riot'.

Boru

A protest is a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something.  A riot and protest aren't mutually exlusive terms.  People can riot as a way to express disaproval of something, which is often the case.