Or do you pull out your scatter gun and watch them scatter.This brings up an important question about safety. If you were driving down a roadway and came across a mob of protestors blocking your way and then they started attacking your vehicle; whose safety is most important? Do you keep attempting to move through as they beat on your vehicle with their fists and other objects or do you continue moving even if it means running some of them over?
If I were sitting on a jury for a trial where a motorist was charged for continuing to drive through them; I would have to vote to acquit him/her. The mob's actions gave any reasonable person to fear for his/her life when the mob started attacking the vehicle.
This brings up an important question about safety. If you were driving down a roadway and came across a mob of protestors blocking your way and then they started attacking your vehicle; whose safety is most important? Do you keep attempting to move through as they beat on your vehicle with their fists and other objects or do you continue moving even if it means running some of them over?
If I were sitting on a jury for a trial where a motorist was charged for continuing to drive through them; I would have to vote to acquit him/her. The mob's actions gave any reasonable person to fear for his/her life when the mob started attacking the vehicle.
I was thinking about this as well. How would the legal system see it?This brings up an important question about safety. If you were driving down a roadway and came across a mob of protestors blocking your way and then they started attacking your vehicle; whose safety is most important? Do you keep attempting to move through as they beat on your vehicle with their fists and other objects or do you continue moving even if it means running some of them over?
If I were sitting on a jury for a trial where a motorist was charged for continuing to drive through them; I would have to vote to acquit him/her. The mob's actions gave any reasonable person to fear for his/her life when the mob started attacking the vehicle.
We should find out in Minneapolis. Remember the truck driver whose semi was attacked by the mob and he kept driving through. I don't think he intended to hurt anyone, as he was driving pretty slow.I was thinking about this as well. How would the legal system see it?
We might find out.