If you’ve been watching the news, you’re more than aware of all of the protests going on in some of the United States’ most populated areas. People are taking to the streets with signs and bricks, some practicing peaceful protesting and others taking a more violent approach by smashing windows and and looting. And this has been problem long before Donald Trump was elected. While the Obama Administration fed the Black Lives Matter movement and encouraged this type of behavior, people were beginning to feel so empowered that they actually thought they were invincible.
That’s when speeding car met fragile protestor.
In the driver’s defense, it’s difficult to see people standing on the freeway at night, even if they are waving signs around. However, this is one of those laws of nature type things. If you’re dumb enough to stand on a highway, where cars speed by and block traffic to get people to read your signs or listen to your whining, perhaps you deserve to get run over. And fortunately enough for drivers, it might no longer be a crime to accidentally hit somebody if they’re protesting on the road.
Find out why on the next page.
Peggy H. Cole my relatives learned at an early age not to stand in the road. If you have all your mental capabilities and you think to prove a point you are gonna stand in the road….hold up traffic…assault drivers and thier vehicles then I guess you get what you get. You don’t want to get hit…STAY OUT OF THE ROAD!
About time
Jack Robinson if your child is standing in the road which by the way is illegal then what does that say about you as a parent?
Pedestrians have the right of way, however, if you are standing in a road, for the sole purpose of blocking traffic, you aren’t a pedestrian. You are an impediment to the freedom of others.
That is how it should be only a idiot stands in the highway
It shouldn’t matter whether it was intentional or unintentional. THEY are illegally blocking a public road and violating the constitutional rights of others who have the right to go where they please without interference.
Is there any truth to this?
It serves them right. Protesting happens on the sidewalks … not the Middle of the street.
Grown people know the dangers of standing in the middle of a road or highway. If they still choose to do it then they do it at their own risk. If someone hits them then they asked for it in my opinion. I mean, some people would be afraid to slow down or stop if they saw an protest going on. I know I would.
it says that i taught them that in america we dont expect our neighbors to run us down just because they disagree with us.. We are not a nation of hate but of compassion, or at least in the nation i live in that is the way we think, I might disagree with why you are protesting and why you are blocking the streets, but i would never intentionally run over someone and injure them, guess that is where we are different..