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Originally Posted by AR_Six
I would intuitively say 100% if they can be identified but I don't really know for sure. I would think they should be charged with whatever the Vancouver rioters were charged with for burning those cars downtown.
Eh, it's an argument I guess, but I seriously doubt that it works. Either way, you're in court and spending a couple hundo per hour on your lawyer. Your insurance probably spiked. You were all over the news as "the guy who ran over someone because he couldn't stand being inconvenienced". Your license is probably suspended pending the outcome of the legal proceedings. It's just not worth it, at all.
Well, sure, if perjury is an option for you, but I wouldn't think that would be advisable.
For me it's totally credible that a guy didn't want to hit the jaywalker but events conspired to create an unfortunate accident, whether they be ice-related or otherwise. Because who wants to hit a jaywalker? However, it's less credible for me that you accidentally ran into a group of protestors. More likely you just wanted to get past them to wherever you were going.
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First and foremost how is it perjury, I'm just laying out possibilities.
where this whole thing gets scetchy to me is that she has the legal right to passage on that highway. The minute that the protesters went from standing in the road to actively pushing back on her vehicle and trying to use another truck to block her off it became a threatening environment for her, and the Natives accepted the risk of injury due to their actions and not hers.
Like I said I don't blame a girl in a truck for not wanting to stop when a bunch of people are physically trying to stop her vehicle and blocking her off with the road.
By Rights as soon as she indicated that she was going through at a slow speed the Natives should have stepped out of the way and let her proceed.
You can talk about the legalities of a blockade here, but the Natives protesters decided to take the risk of not just standing in front of her truck, but attempting to obstruct her not once but twice.
Nobody is advocating running through the blockade at 100 kms an hour no matter what accusations are flying around about me.
She made reasonable motions to slow down against an illegal blockade to give them a chance to move out of the way, instead they physically tried to obstruct her vehicle with force and then used another vehicle.
I think any court charges would be dubious.