Well, he was banging on the hood of the Mercedes, he was a threat to both the driver and the driver's property. Obviously in the driver's mind, his car's hood is worth more than that guy's life.
Get off the street, stop blocking traffic and dont bang on someone's car. What did that idiot expect? When you bang on someones car like Donkey Kong you're going to suffer the consequences. Stupid juvenile delinquent.
And........................ Occupy guys are stupid. Change this system through voting. Last time I checked we had a democracy for a reason. By the way. I am in the 99%. But I really consider myself in the 100% being that I am an American just like all my other fellow citizens. Voices are a million times louder in voting than through this stupid waste of all our time.
Driver was within his rights. A violent person trapped him in the middle of a crowd that has at times rioted. He happens to be driving a nice car that might associate him with a group the crowd is protesting about. The car moved once as a warning and did not initially hurt the violent protester. After that guy banged harder on the car and continued to trap the driver. Also not that in this video we can not see the violent guys face or hear words he might be saying.
This guy did nothing wrong in my opinion. If that dumbass had the nerve to stand there and beat on my car I'da done the same. Learn some respect people!
The protests in California have been extremely hostile towards anyone not in the protest. Throwing feces and urine at food cart vendors, destroying personal property, blocking traffic (including the freeway in downtown LA), blocking people from getting to work.
The police should do their job, and anyone with damage to personal property should group together and sue the police for inaction.
I'm sorry, I missed the part in the Constitution where it says you can destroy another persons personal property if they have the legal right of way...
And if you say "Personal property is bullshit" do you own your own body?
"Peaceably assemble" means NOT doing damage to people shit.
I'm sorry, I missed the part in the Constitution where it says you can destroy another persons personal property if they have the legal right of way...
And if you say "Personal property is bullshit" do you own your own body?
These hippies have a mob mentality. when the obvious happens, they play victim. bullshit. you have something to say, demonstrate with some decency and act like a human being. If some monkey started banging on the hood of my car, that I worked hard for, that I paid for, that I maintain - and you're in a mob inciting violence against me & property - I'd send the same message. Occupy a desk and maybe one day you can drive a merc. It's not owed to you
@5150chi you are absolutely right and then the guy in the car should of backed over him again and took out some more hippies behind him lol its about time to see some real karma come to those who dont have a fucking clue lol good job driver you deserve a medal of absolute asshole stomping lol
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@thebearjewkiller1976 If you're an American, I'm assuming you're from Mexico, Peru, or some other non-English speaking American place. As such, GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY if you can't bother to learn ENGLISH. I got about a third way through your jumble of words before stopping. I don't speak "fucktard language." Re-type your comment in ENGLISH and in lower-case and I'll read it. Try again.
He completely deserved that. First of all do protesters no longer have to obey traffic laws? And, what did he expect by punching the car. I would have done the same and that situation. That stupid fuck deserved it.
@Crisivanowski I'm trying to understand this.. Someone does damage to your property and you retaliate, you're brainwashed? Sound logic there, meat head.
How can you brain washed idiots think this is ok? He was crossing the street,it was a protest! The driver should have waited no matter what! Now,if I leave work and need to get home soon do I just run people over? This is disgusting!
All those who think this is justified, just please turn your lives over to the Koch brothers immediately. You are already owned, why not make it official?
Oh please... these Occupy people aren't human beings... They're animals. I'da just ignored them and continued driving. I hope they move. If they don't, oh well. Honking should be adequate warning. They're not pedestrians; they're imbeciles. My tax money from WORKING paid for those streets, and I should have fair access to them. Anyone who is blocking them is abusing that privilege, and frankly deserve to be ran down and "murdered with a deadly weapon." And - noone hits my cars.
I'm thinking this ass hole in the mercedes is going to get stuck good for assault with a deadly weapon. Go figure....if his car is damaged by some clown pounding on it....then you can KILL him? hey.......not quite legal.
This slimey ass hole is going to get stuck with assault...mark my word. And well he should. If he wanted to get out and tell the dip shit to move..fine. If he wanted to back up and go around...fine. To run him down?...I don't think so.
Clearly both are in the wrong, but lets not stop the analysis here.
Since when is it legally acceptable for a citizen to use potentially fatal force out of fear of cosmetic damage to personal property?
The drivers behavior was way out of line and he should be put in prison for attempted murder. The person banging on the car should be charged for vandalism/property damage.
The drivers reaction to potentially murder a human being was 1000x worse than cosmetic damage to an inanimate object
@OhNoPaypal Nope. The driver was neither arrested nor charged with an arrest worthy offense. He was cited at the same level that one might get a parking ticket. The driver is safe.
That's good. Whoever hit his car's hood deserved it. If you don't want someone to hurt you, respect people's properties. Just because he was in a crowd doesn't give him any more power than he was alone by himself. What a total loser. I hope next time he dies.
@OhNoPaypal Bah, death is too easy. I'm all for punishing wrong doing, but killing the perp is what I consider an easy way out. Jail time, after a hearty hospital stay should just about do the trick.
He started slamming on the hood? What the hell was that about? Not sure I would have run him over but I wouldn't have been nice to him either. The guy deserved a beating.
@lopside0 This is in Oakland, CA at approx. 6:50 pm at 11th St on Broadway on 11-2-11. I witnessed the accident and have video posted as well. It really happened in Oakland. Police are still investigating the incident as of this post.
@NObushma "Victim's" hands were in the air, caught on an upswing from a violent attempt towards the driver's property. The driver gave the "victim" first an audible warning (the horn) and then a slight physical warning (the nudge). The "victim" overreacted, became violent & unpredictable. The driver became frightened, and reacted via fight or flight response. The car was NOT classified as a deadly weapon, and the choice to charge was legally the cop's.
@AndrewDeLong Mr Lavendure made rude gestures in response to the car repeatedly edging up on him and his friend until it was almost on them, then after being bumped by the car he started slapping its hood. Photos taken on the scene right after the incident show no damage to the hood, from slapping or otherwise.
@AndrewDeLong Read California penal code regarding cars, pedestrians, and homicide. Your head is so far up your ass you're being mouth-fucked by unicorns. (How's that glitter taste?)
Just because two incompetent departments of law-enforcement fail to do their job during a period of record-level chaos doesn't make things A-OK. But then you probably cheered the Danziger Bridge shootings too, even after the cover-up fell apart.
@whatthehellpeople I see no homicide here. I see protection of personal property, an over reactive pedestrian, and what could easily be seen as a frightened motorist reacting via fight or flight response.
Nope, no homicide here. Just a pedestrian that has learned a valuable lesson, and law enforcement that was just willing enough to let a motorist teach it.
@AndrewDeLong California castle doctrine doesn't extend to vehicles, we already covered this; the pedestrian performed no felonies either, which would be necessary to claim CD justification for a HOUSE. I already pointed out that photos show no damage to the car's hood from the pedestrian slapping it, and that fear of someone denting your hood DOES NOT give you the right to run over them.
You don't care about what happened, you just want to gloat about someone you feel superior to being harmed.
@whatthehellpeople "and that fear of someone denting your hood DOES NOT give you the right to run over them"
Correct. It is the fear of forced entry, which, by all rights, the driver can claim, that gives the motorist the right to defend himself and his property.
"You don't care about what happened"
Untrue. I care deeply that the motorist is now safe and sound, and that those rapacious Oakland "protesters" now know they cannot get away with anything they please to.
@AndrewDeLong Fear of forced entry? From the front bumper? Seriously? "Rapacious Oakland protestors"?
Now I know you're just trolling. You know as well as I that until he ran over those two people, no one but the man in the crosswalk who he bumped with his car gave two shits about him or his car.
@whatthehellpeople "Fear of forced entry? From the front bumper? Seriously? "Rapacious Oakland protestors"?"
Yes, yes, and yes. The Oaklandites need to learn to obey traffic laws themselves, they also need to learn respect for property and that they have no right to block or impede traffic. The Mercedes driver was just willing enough to teach that lesson, and the cops just willing enough to let him teach it.
Personally, I see nothing wrong with the results. Nor do a good chunk of people.
@Castartanarchy I don't need you to call me or those people good. Fact is, a good chucnk of us don't have a problem with idiots in traffic getting hit by traffic.
@TheGiantRobot Oh, I'm sorry. I tend not to give a piss about what happens to the Oakland idiots that have disobeyed traffic laws, blocked and impeded traffic, cause, in some cases, all out riots, shut down business, and so forth.
Forgive me for giving less than a piss about a group of people that seems to give less than a piss about how they are acting. Shit, if you want to find an embarrassment to the human race, look at how the idiots in Oakland are acting, or letting others act.
They are the people who are going to save this country from collapsing, something a few sociopathic morons like yourself cannot grasp. I hope you don't benefit from it. No matter, really. You'll end up in hell sooner or later.
@TheGiantRobot Oh yes. They'll save this country by blocking the streets, hindering traffic, and shutting down business. Yep. Because, to save something, you must first damage and/or destroy it.
Yeah, I hope I don't benefit from it either.
And I suspect that, if these Oakland fucks have their way, you'll be joining me in a proverbial hell.
Just remember, sun block. Because, y'know, hell is HOT!
@AndrewDeLong California castle doctrine doesn't include cars. The driver could have backed back up, and because he is not covered under CD, would have been expected to. If claiming fear for his life, he woudl also need to show that he tried to retreat, and the onus would be on him to prove beyond a doubt that the pedestrian was trying to harm him.
CONCLUSION: You are full of shit, trolling, and also a disgusting child. Come back when you grow up.
@AndrewDeLong 1. Look up "11th and Broadway, Oakland CA" on google maps. Goto street view. Line up w/11th, the road the driver was traveling. If they aren't on the crosswalk, they are still crossing at an intersection, which is specifically mentioned in CA law.
2. You will also see the traffic signal. I don't know what world you live in, but here the top light is RED, the middle light is YELLOW, and the bottom light is GREEN. Even if you can't see the colors, look to see which of those is lit.
@whatthehellpeople "You will also see the traffic signal" Yes, I have seen it. It was green, in favor of the driver, which means that the people that were crossing, were not only jaywalking, but they were also knowingly and willingly obstructing traffic. By all accounts, that is an arrest able offense. If anything, the "victims" as well as every other jay walker there, should have been put into the back of squad cars, ON THE SPOT.
@AndrewDeLong You are either blind or lying. What color is the top light on the traffic signals in your world?
The pedestrians were crossing at the corner of an intersection, where there was a crosswalk. If they were not directly on the crosswalk, they were crossing at the intersection, which is also protected.
Jaywalking is a matter of a fine. If they were jaywalking, and were cited for it, they would be issued a fine, not arrested. Unlike the man who tried to kill them with his car.
@whatthehellpeople "Jaywalking is a matter of a fine. If they were jaywalking, and were cited for it, they would be issued a fine, not arrested"
They were jaywalking IN CONJUNCTION with purposely impeding traffic. That is an arrest worthy set of offenses. Personally, I would like to see nothing more than that entire group of law breaking protesters carted off to county jail for a few nights.
I also commend the driver for not taking their bullshit.
@AndrewDeLong From CA DMV: "Drive cautiously when pedestrians are near because they may suddenly cross your path."
"Respect the right-of-way of pedestrians. Always stop for any pedestrian crossing at corners or other crosswalks, even if the crosswalk is in the middle of the block, at corners with or without traffic lights, whether or not the crosswalks are marked by painted lines."
@whatthehellpeople Calif. Vehicle Code 21950. (b) The provisions of this section shall not relieve a pedestrian from the duty of using due care for his or her safety. No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard. No pedestrian shall unnecessarily stop or delay traffic while in a marked or unmarked crosswalk.
@AndrewDeLong They didn't suddenly leave the curb, they were walking. At the time they first stepped into the road to cross, the driver was more than ten feet away They only stopped because the driver kept honking and yelling at them, and forcing his way forward despite them having right of way. They weren't given a chance to move on again, as he then ran them over.
@whatthehellpeople "They only stopped because the driver kept honking and yelling at them, and forcing his way forward despite them having right of way."
They did NOT have the legal right of way. They ignored traffic signals and decided that they could cross when they were NOT LEGALLY PERMITTED TO DO SO. The driver was simply brave enough to take back his legal right of way, and I and others commend him for it.
@AndrewDeLong from CA DMV: "Remember, if a pedestrian makes eye contact with you, he or she is ready to cross the street. Yield to the pedestrian."
"Solid Green– Give the right-of-way to any vehicle, bicyclist, or pedestrian in the intersection. ... Do not enter the intersection if you cannot get completely across before the light turns red. If you block the intersection, you can be cited."
"Pedestrians have the right-of-way in crosswalks."
@AndrewDeLong "The driver was cited." Funny, you told me just a little while ago the driver wasn't cited, and was let go. Which is it?
And I've already told you before. Look at the traffic signal around the 8 or 9 second mark. It starts out yellow, then turns red right before he strikes the pedestrians. There is no color, so use your brain and look at the position on the signal-bar where the brightest glow is coming from. It starts at the middle light, then goes to the top light. YELLOW - RED
@whatthehellpeople ""The driver was cited." Funny, you told me just a little while ago the driver wasn't cited, and was let go. Which is it?"
No. I told you the driver was not charged with assault or attempted vehicular manslaughter. I have said throughout, however, that the driver was given the equivalent of a speeding ticket, via a citation.
@NObushma "The driver showed no intention to stop. He attracted attention to himself by repeatedly using horn as a weapon."
1) He did stop.
2) Show me where a horn is a classifiable weapon. ANYWHERE.
"You also have a right to defend it when being assaulted and THREATENED WITH FURTHER ASSAULT."
The motorist did just that. He defended against assault with further assault. Lesson learned, and motorist backed by the cops, the protester will not be so idiotic next time. That's the simple truth.
@NObushma "THE REST IS A FELONY. 10 YEARS IN PRISON. PERMANENT LOSS OF DRIVING RIGHTS."
In dreamland Nemo. In dreamland.
In reality, the dumb ass protester was given a chance to move, did NOT move, and attacked the car. Clearly, the intent to harm is from him. The motorist defends himself as best he can. Cops show up, give the motorist a DWI test, sends him on his way with a mere citation, practically a parking ticket.
Justice served, the protester will NOT attack personal property again.
And well well well - heres an interesting follow-up video. Ironically the cop bangs on the hood to indicate that the driver could leave the scene. I wonder if the cop actually took any evidence of this incident before passing an innocent verdict? Since when were cops promoted to lawyer, jury, and judge? hmmm. And some ppl still think everything is dandy & theres nothing to protest about. :-\
Occupy Oakland General Strike BART police let driver of car that hit pedestrian go
Anyone else notice that the guy only banged on the hood when the driver began nudging toward him? Looked like the driver was threatening to do what he did.
Who gives a shit about the green light? Its obvious ppl were walking thru the intersection - thats what happens during protests. Simply put, just sit & wait for the crowd to pass. Was the driver really in so much of a hurry that he needed to force his way thru the masses? Im sure running ppl over really got him to his destination faster.
That was an idiot slapping a bonnet, and plain old fashion road rage & using a vehicle as a deadly weapon..
No damage done to the vehicle or person driving, so driver has no civil case of property damage or injuries to note. The man who slapped the bonnet apeared to be about to walk off, It is on a public road and no one can claim their vehicles are that prescious. If he was scared he would not of stopped the car at all. The driver was pissed off and reacted in anger IMO.
Fuck that dumb nigger.I would have filed a pothole with his stinking ass.
These fucking apes need to be controlled or sent back to da mudderland to eat grubs and mud cookies, bathe in cow piss and live in a mud and shit hut.
California law states that you are not allowed to hit a pedestrian with your your car however much you might be tempted. This driver needs to be found and interviewed. He knew he was at least flirting with accidental vehicular manslaughter here.
The cars full of children who grew up with me driving in the Bay Area can recite what I said often: "And yet, I'm *NOT* allowed to hit them!!"
@katemckowen13 The law just took a vacation, and it's timing could not be better. That "pedestrian" was given ample time to vacate his position, and he did not. Hell, that driver can easily argue that he was merely protecting his property in the way that was safest for him to do so. I've seen dumber things fly in court.
Personally, I'm glad that "protester" got run over. He was acting like an ass and needed to be educated.
It's a simple rule of nature, really: Play with fire--> get burned.
@katemckowen13 If in fear for his life being surrounded by protesters who seem to be violent against people who drive mercedes he probably paniced and hit the gas, The drivers main mistake was driving in that area. They need to fence it off and let the OWS people dwell in peace, Thow stuff over the wall every week or so and let the live in a "Communal" setting.
@lopside0 This is in Oakland, CA at approx. 6:50 pm at 11th St on Broadway on 11-2-11. I witnessed the accident and have video posted as well. It really happened in Oakland. Police are still investigating the incident as of this post.
i think its kinda fkd up that he ran him over just because he was banging on his car, its not like his life was in some kind of danger. get out and beat his ass or something, running him over was just gonna provoke the other protesters then shit was gonna come down on that merc.
Defending private property, there is nothing more American than that...why stand infront of someones car and pound the hood like that? No sympathy needed for this person.
The second the retard ran over the other guy liberty to enjoy his car, the car owner was doing his constitutional work protecting private property imo.
@BestTechnoTrance The car had a green light and the right of way & was alerting the pedestrians who were illegally pouring into the street that there are cars present and moving.
@haroldmethven You're right, you don't run people over for hitting a strong piece of metal. Instead, people get hurt when they illegally cross into traffic, become hostile with drivers and try to keep a car from moving in its path.
Unfortunately, jaywalking and illegally blocking traffic for a few seconds still doesn't provide a legal justification for deliberately hospitalizing someone.
@11111110 Unfortunately that wan't the case. The guy honked at him many times and he stood there and started hitting the car. This goes pass jaywalikng. That bitch deserved what he got.
Blocking traffic is illegal, but its impossible to make the case that someone was legitimately blocking traffic when they did it for all of FIVE SECONDS.
And even so, you still don't have a right to run over people blocking traffic.
@11111110 I guess you didn't get the memo then that this driver hasn't yet been charged with anything. The driver was put in a threatening situation. If Casey Anthony can get away with murdering her precious little girl, I'm sure this driver can get out of taking down this hostile f*ckwad.
-fool actually walks in front of car and DOESN'T GET HIT.
-guy sounds horn several times as do other drivers.
-fool starts yelling things at driver STILL DOESN'T GET HIT.
-fool starts pounding on the hood of the someone else's personal property.
-fool final gets hit.
I see this as a matter of the drivers personal safety and I challenge any HONEST human who says they wouldn't react similarly. Hope the fool is held accountable for the da
I don't think its unreasonable to expect people to *not* deliberately plow through you with their car.
Still, let's just call for everybody to take responsibility for their own actions. The pedestrian will get written up for jaywalking, and the driver will get written up for attempted murder
if that guy/gal got his car through hard honest work and some fool decides to pound the bonnet they can only expect to get ran over i would do the same everytime.
I think the driver just got freaked out and panicked. It a shitty thing, for sure, but because he's in a car doesn't necessarily make him feel safe, especially if some punk who feels empowered by all the people around him starts to smash up the hood. Maybe his wife was in the car too... Maybe his kids...
I can understand them standing in front of a car but banging and hitting the car means he does not like the driver and the driver felt threatened and did not want someone to pull him out and beat him so he defended himself and the car. I mean for real who does that hitting an innocent guys car who just wants to go to his location.... it aint right
"The two people who were hit, a man and a woman, suffered leg and ankle injuries that were not life-threatening, said BART Police Deputy Chief Daniel Hartwig."
they weren't killed. The guy honked his horn several times. Parents teach you young "look both ways before crossing the road" so why were these idiots on the road in front of a car? and as the guy honks the horn for them to move, the pedestrian starts beating on his car? again, back to kindergarten "don't touch what isn't yours"
nobody gives a fuck that the pedestrian provoked the driver though, people only see what the driver did wrong. i bet they won't do it again though. =]
This guy is a poor excuse of OWS and totally missed the point of this protest.....and yes the guy got what he deserved.. he called the guy out and the guy messed him up.. simple as that...I bet this guy will not go around hitting people's cars again
@Monasukapanough What the hell? No one deserves to be run over. The fact that you could disregard a human life with such careless apathy truly scares me. All human life is sacred. I don't care who you are or what you've done, if you are brought into this world, you have a right to live.
@FML421 And the guy driving that car has a right not to have himself threatened or have his property damaged....We have a right to defend our property. He clearly gave the guy plenty of chances to move...but the guy taunted and then proceded to damage his car....the guy was also crossing when the cars had the right of way...that light is GREEN.
@Monasukapanough You got it wrong, obviously the protesters MUST have their rights granted or they will whine, scream and chant like robots....but if they feel like preventing someone else for exercising their rights it is OK.
Not that we have that cleared up....make way cause I am coming through!!!!!!!!!
@Monasukapanough Obviously you either didn't pay attention in driver's ed, or you never took it. The pedestrian has right of way at ALL TIMES. If he tapped him, I wouldn't give two shits about his whales. In fact, if someone was doing that to me, I'd definitely tap him. As for being threatened, I do not see this as incredibly threatening. It would piss me off a bit that he would be so rude, but I definitely would not run him over. This is an incredibly blatant over-reaction.
@FML421 Obviously you do not know walking in the path of on coming cars means your getting hit by a car....obviously you don't know when you have the red light it means stop, don't cross, don't walk.....and obviously you don't know that when you see a cross walk, it means walk IN the cross walk..not in the MIDDLE of a INTERSECTION lmao.... and listen to ALL the cars blowing their horns...these people had been blocking the path of cars for quite some time....they was refusing to let cars pass...
@FML421 "This is an incredibly blatant over-reaction."
No, it's not. It's a perfectly fine reaction. The so called "pedestrian" was given ample time to remove himself from the temporarily stopped vehicle. Instead, he decided to fight the vehicle, fist to hood. In the eyes of many vehicle owners, that's effectively seen as waving one's right to pedestrian protection. It certainly seems to be the popular sentiment on these forums, and the police effectively agreed, by NOT arresting the driver
Jaywalking is an informal term commonly used in North America to refer to illegal or reckless pedestrian crossing of a roadway. Examples include a pedestrian crossing between intersections (outside or, in some jurisdictions, also inside a marked or unmarked crosswalk) without yielding to drivers and starting to cross a crosswalk at a signalized intersection without waiting for a permissive indication to be displayed.
Yeah, because when confronted by a hostile, aggressive person who is preventing you from leaving a volatile crowd it is best to let them do whatever they like.
You've got to be fucking kidding me. When is EVER okay to just run over someone? We have no idea exactly what went down between the driver and pedestrian, but from where I am sitting, the dude in the car nearly ran over two people, and the pedestrian confronted him about it. Possibly inappropriately, but that doesn't justify vehicular manslaughter. Damage to a car does not equal damage to a person.
I don't usually comment on youtube videos but this is ridiculous
Look i get that the protester had no right to hit the guy's car and was being an obnoxious asshole by doing so...he's a jerk
BUT there is never a reason to intentionally run a man over in your car. That takes someone with absolutely no soul and it is ridiculous that people think he deserved it!! No one ever deserves to be brutally injured or killed. You people are sick
"how dare you put your hands on a car you can't afford?" What the hell is wrong with you? That's like saying "how dare you touch my window, you can't afford it." It's not as if he was damaging the car. Hitting a car is not threatening at all. He definitely shouldn't have been taunting him. It gives a bad name to the protest. But who the hell runs someone over for touching your car? That's like shooting someone because they flicked your ear.
@FML421 the fact of the matter is, you never know what people are going to do. so why even provoke them? People do crazy things, why make it worse? why even put yourself in a situation like that when it isn't necessary? and i could HEAR him pounding on the dudes car, so i'd be very surprised if there wasn't any damage. Why were they standing in the middle of the road when the driver clearly had a green light, which means pedestrians aren't supposed to walk. maybe they shouldn't be so stupid.
Well, he was banging on the hood of the Mercedes, he was a threat to both the driver and the driver's property. Obviously in the driver's mind, his car's hood is worth more than that guy's life.
sweetsf4life 2 weeks ago
LOLd
pemwew 3 weeks ago
he deserved it
tosonotorimi 1 month ago
Get off the street, stop blocking traffic and dont bang on someone's car. What did that idiot expect? When you bang on someones car like Donkey Kong you're going to suffer the consequences. Stupid juvenile delinquent.
Killermolls44 1 month ago
FAKE! OMG - that was so fake. Did the car just happen to get hit from behind from a big rig doing 80 mph?
thebuckstopshere79 1 month ago
that motherfucker had no right to touch other persons property
Newbpwng 1 month ago
What the fuck did he expect? Driver acted appropriately.
peterwall66 1 month ago
Taking out the trash
nerve 2 months ago
Stupid fuck!
caporalchef4 2 months ago
Nice hit.
Bedervede 2 months ago
And........................ Occupy guys are stupid. Change this system through voting. Last time I checked we had a democracy for a reason. By the way. I am in the 99%. But I really consider myself in the 100% being that I am an American just like all my other fellow citizens. Voices are a million times louder in voting than through this stupid waste of all our time.
brockalamo1 3 months ago
Driver was within his rights. A violent person trapped him in the middle of a crowd that has at times rioted. He happens to be driving a nice car that might associate him with a group the crowd is protesting about. The car moved once as a warning and did not initially hurt the violent protester. After that guy banged harder on the car and continued to trap the driver. Also not that in this video we can not see the violent guys face or hear words he might be saying.
brockalamo1 3 months ago
This guy did nothing wrong in my opinion. If that dumbass had the nerve to stand there and beat on my car I'da done the same. Learn some respect people!
haulnbones 3 months ago
@RianRain83 check Oakland's traffic laws. The Mercedes had the right of way.
firecopy 3 months ago
One less dumbass
GarshardJeVard 3 months ago
The protests in California have been extremely hostile towards anyone not in the protest. Throwing feces and urine at food cart vendors, destroying personal property, blocking traffic (including the freeway in downtown LA), blocking people from getting to work.
The police should do their job, and anyone with damage to personal property should group together and sue the police for inaction.
bynddrvn5 3 months ago
Idiot got what he deserved.
capitalismforme 3 months ago
LIKE A BOSS
hxnncht 3 months ago
I'm sorry, I missed the part in the Constitution where it says you can destroy another persons personal property if they have the legal right of way...
And if you say "Personal property is bullshit" do you own your own body?
"Peaceably assemble" means NOT doing damage to people shit.
RianRain83 3 months ago
I'm sorry, I missed the part in the Constitution where it says you can destroy another persons personal property if they have the legal right of way...
And if you say "Personal property is bullshit" do you own your own body?
RianRain83 3 months ago
He deserved it. I bet he won't do it again.
These hippies have a mob mentality. when the obvious happens, they play victim. bullshit. you have something to say, demonstrate with some decency and act like a human being. If some monkey started banging on the hood of my car, that I worked hard for, that I paid for, that I maintain - and you're in a mob inciting violence against me & property - I'd send the same message. Occupy a desk and maybe one day you can drive a merc. It's not owed to you
cambellschunky704 3 months ago
You get what you get for acting stupid in the middle of the street.
ThinBlueLine1969 3 months ago 3
If you stand in the street long enough, you'll get hit by a car.
IF you block the street and smash car hoods, you DESERVE TO GET HIT BY A CAR.
5150chi 3 months ago 24
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@5150chi lets use your logic ...people who are fast to claim what others DESERVE or not DESERVE to be hit by a boxer :D
thelion2430 3 months ago
@5150chi you are absolutely right and then the guy in the car should of backed over him again and took out some more hippies behind him lol its about time to see some real karma come to those who dont have a fucking clue lol good job driver you deserve a medal of absolute asshole stomping lol
thebearjewkiller1976 1 month ago
@thebearjewkiller1976 Learn English or GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY. Fucking illiterate piece of shit.
Robert111 1 month ago
@Robert111 I AM AN AMERICAN YOU SUBHUMAN PILE OF SHIT NOW AS FAR AS YOUR OTHER STATEMENT GOES IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU SPEAK FROM A LOT OF EXPERIENCE THERE JAGOFF LOL AND BY THE WAY TELL THAT WHORE OF A MOTHER YOU HAVE THAT THE CUNT OWES ME MONEY FOR MY SERVICES THE OTHER NIGHT AND I AM SURE YOU WONT RECOGNIZE HER THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE HER BECAUSE I SHAVED HER BACK FOR YA LOL NOW IF YOU DONT LIKE THE COMMENTS JAGOFF THAN GET THE FUCK OFF YOUTUBE YOU WINY LITTLE BITCH LOL AND FUCK YOU VERY MUCH JAGOFFF
thebearjewkiller1976 1 month ago
@thebearjewkiller1976 If you're an American, I'm assuming you're from Mexico, Peru, or some other non-English speaking American place. As such, GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY if you can't bother to learn ENGLISH. I got about a third way through your jumble of words before stopping. I don't speak "fucktard language." Re-type your comment in ENGLISH and in lower-case and I'll read it. Try again.
Robert111 1 month ago
He completely deserved that. First of all do protesters no longer have to obey traffic laws? And, what did he expect by punching the car. I would have done the same and that situation. That stupid fuck deserved it.
striike22 3 months ago
For those who think that this is justified because he hit the car's hood,I'm sorry but you are a have been wasting your life under mental slavery.
Crisivanowski 3 months ago
@Crisivanowski I'm trying to understand this.. Someone does damage to your property and you retaliate, you're brainwashed? Sound logic there, meat head.
SikassWS6 3 months ago
How can you brain washed idiots think this is ok? He was crossing the street,it was a protest! The driver should have waited no matter what! Now,if I leave work and need to get home soon do I just run people over? This is disgusting!
Crisivanowski 3 months ago
Hmmm, wonder what would have happened if the driver was a black dude in a Toyota?
akgregor 3 months ago
he shouldn't have stopped, the dumb fuck shouldn't have been in the street
billferrato 3 months ago
@billferrato haha you're right. the guy in the car was obviously in a hurry. i would've hit him too
natestarider 3 months ago
All those who think this is justified, just please turn your lives over to the Koch brothers immediately. You are already owned, why not make it official?
grindlbebe 3 months ago
@grindlbebe Bwahaha. I'm owned by the Koch brothers. That's a good one, you paranoid imbecile.
grimelab 3 months ago
Oh please... these Occupy people aren't human beings... They're animals. I'da just ignored them and continued driving. I hope they move. If they don't, oh well. Honking should be adequate warning. They're not pedestrians; they're imbeciles. My tax money from WORKING paid for those streets, and I should have fair access to them. Anyone who is blocking them is abusing that privilege, and frankly deserve to be ran down and "murdered with a deadly weapon." And - noone hits my cars.
zSuperH 3 months ago
That is the funniest thing I've seen....I just don't know why the guy slowed down in the first place.
rolling126r 3 months ago
I'm thinking this ass hole in the mercedes is going to get stuck good for assault with a deadly weapon. Go figure....if his car is damaged by some clown pounding on it....then you can KILL him? hey.......not quite legal.
This slimey ass hole is going to get stuck with assault...mark my word. And well he should. If he wanted to get out and tell the dip shit to move..fine. If he wanted to back up and go around...fine. To run him down?...I don't think so.
HulksHeroes 3 months ago 2
Clearly both are in the wrong, but lets not stop the analysis here.
Since when is it legally acceptable for a citizen to use potentially fatal force out of fear of cosmetic damage to personal property?
The drivers behavior was way out of line and he should be put in prison for attempted murder. The person banging on the car should be charged for vandalism/property damage.
The drivers reaction to potentially murder a human being was 1000x worse than cosmetic damage to an inanimate object
nornerator 3 months ago
Good job driver. But most likely going to jail... :(
OhNoPaypal 3 months ago
@OhNoPaypal Nope. The driver was neither arrested nor charged with an arrest worthy offense. He was cited at the same level that one might get a parking ticket. The driver is safe.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong
That's good. Whoever hit his car's hood deserved it. If you don't want someone to hurt you, respect people's properties. Just because he was in a crowd doesn't give him any more power than he was alone by himself. What a total loser. I hope next time he dies.
OhNoPaypal 3 months ago
@OhNoPaypal Bah, death is too easy. I'm all for punishing wrong doing, but killing the perp is what I consider an easy way out. Jail time, after a hearty hospital stay should just about do the trick.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
If those useless assholes banged on my car I would run them the fuck over too.
ar15expert 3 months ago
Start beating on my car and I'll do the exact same shit, only I'll keep driving.
Turkalj 3 months ago
Ha Ha That guy has every right to protect himself and his property. Maybe if he was occupying a job instead of the street....
pbauer666 3 months ago 2
This is awesome. Mad props to the guy in the Mercedes.
jhbombb 3 months ago
Outfuckingstanding. I'm just disappointed the poor driver had to get dirty hippie all over his car just to get out of a dangerous situation.
chopinbloc 3 months ago
Ha! Ha! Lmao! Should just start plowing thru these idiots. Good hardworking people dont have time to put up with this nonsense. Fucking losers.
Trashfished 3 months ago
He started slamming on the hood? What the hell was that about? Not sure I would have run him over but I wouldn't have been nice to him either. The guy deserved a beating.
vipervnm 3 months ago
That was awesome!
robstrevor 3 months ago
More of this should happen.
jonathanburrowaz 3 months ago
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Don't stand in front of a car that you can't afford.
jonathanburrowaz 3 months ago
as a car enthusiast, i applaud the driver. please don't fuck with people's cars.
ddgarageeric 3 months ago
@lopside0 This is in Oakland, CA at approx. 6:50 pm at 11th St on Broadway on 11-2-11. I witnessed the accident and have video posted as well. It really happened in Oakland. Police are still investigating the incident as of this post.
eelcloud 3 months ago
Self-defense... fuck this gutter trash... don't stop next time.
wReCktangle 3 months ago
@NObushma "Victim's" hands were in the air, caught on an upswing from a violent attempt towards the driver's property. The driver gave the "victim" first an audible warning (the horn) and then a slight physical warning (the nudge). The "victim" overreacted, became violent & unpredictable. The driver became frightened, and reacted via fight or flight response. The car was NOT classified as a deadly weapon, and the choice to charge was legally the cop's.
All ended well, the driver is safe now
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong Mr Lavendure made rude gestures in response to the car repeatedly edging up on him and his friend until it was almost on them, then after being bumped by the car he started slapping its hood. Photos taken on the scene right after the incident show no damage to the hood, from slapping or otherwise.
whatthehellpeople 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong Read California penal code regarding cars, pedestrians, and homicide. Your head is so far up your ass you're being mouth-fucked by unicorns. (How's that glitter taste?)
Just because two incompetent departments of law-enforcement fail to do their job during a period of record-level chaos doesn't make things A-OK. But then you probably cheered the Danziger Bridge shootings too, even after the cover-up fell apart.
whatthehellpeople 3 months ago
@whatthehellpeople I see no homicide here. I see protection of personal property, an over reactive pedestrian, and what could easily be seen as a frightened motorist reacting via fight or flight response.
Nope, no homicide here. Just a pedestrian that has learned a valuable lesson, and law enforcement that was just willing enough to let a motorist teach it.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong California castle doctrine doesn't extend to vehicles, we already covered this; the pedestrian performed no felonies either, which would be necessary to claim CD justification for a HOUSE. I already pointed out that photos show no damage to the car's hood from the pedestrian slapping it, and that fear of someone denting your hood DOES NOT give you the right to run over them.
You don't care about what happened, you just want to gloat about someone you feel superior to being harmed.
whatthehellpeople 3 months ago
@whatthehellpeople "and that fear of someone denting your hood DOES NOT give you the right to run over them"
Correct. It is the fear of forced entry, which, by all rights, the driver can claim, that gives the motorist the right to defend himself and his property.
"You don't care about what happened"
Untrue. I care deeply that the motorist is now safe and sound, and that those rapacious Oakland "protesters" now know they cannot get away with anything they please to.
Law is restored. I care.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong Fear of forced entry? From the front bumper? Seriously? "Rapacious Oakland protestors"?
Now I know you're just trolling. You know as well as I that until he ran over those two people, no one but the man in the crosswalk who he bumped with his car gave two shits about him or his car.
Come back when you're not trolling.
whatthehellpeople 3 months ago
@whatthehellpeople "Fear of forced entry? From the front bumper? Seriously? "Rapacious Oakland protestors"?"
Yes, yes, and yes. The Oaklandites need to learn to obey traffic laws themselves, they also need to learn respect for property and that they have no right to block or impede traffic. The Mercedes driver was just willing enough to teach that lesson, and the cops just willing enough to let him teach it.
Personally, I see nothing wrong with the results. Nor do a good chunk of people.
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@AndrewDeLong
I would hardly call you or those chunk of people "good."
Castartanarchy 3 months ago
@Castartanarchy I don't need you to call me or those people good. Fact is, a good chucnk of us don't have a problem with idiots in traffic getting hit by traffic.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong
"I don't need you to call me or those people good."
Don't worry, I won't.
Castartanarchy 3 months ago
@Castartanarchy I thank you kindly for that, then.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong
Don't bother. You're not welcome.
Castartanarchy 3 months ago
@Castartanarchy At least you're courteous about it.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong
Way to be a complete scumbag and embarrassment to the human race.
TheGiantRobot 3 months ago
@TheGiantRobot Oh, I'm sorry. I tend not to give a piss about what happens to the Oakland idiots that have disobeyed traffic laws, blocked and impeded traffic, cause, in some cases, all out riots, shut down business, and so forth.
Forgive me for giving less than a piss about a group of people that seems to give less than a piss about how they are acting. Shit, if you want to find an embarrassment to the human race, look at how the idiots in Oakland are acting, or letting others act.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong
They are the people who are going to save this country from collapsing, something a few sociopathic morons like yourself cannot grasp. I hope you don't benefit from it. No matter, really. You'll end up in hell sooner or later.
TheGiantRobot 3 months ago
@TheGiantRobot Oh yes. They'll save this country by blocking the streets, hindering traffic, and shutting down business. Yep. Because, to save something, you must first damage and/or destroy it.
Yeah, I hope I don't benefit from it either.
And I suspect that, if these Oakland fucks have their way, you'll be joining me in a proverbial hell.
Just remember, sun block. Because, y'know, hell is HOT!
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong California castle doctrine doesn't include cars. The driver could have backed back up, and because he is not covered under CD, would have been expected to. If claiming fear for his life, he woudl also need to show that he tried to retreat, and the onus would be on him to prove beyond a doubt that the pedestrian was trying to harm him.
CONCLUSION: You are full of shit, trolling, and also a disgusting child. Come back when you grow up.
whatthehellpeople 3 months ago
@NObushma
1. The driver DID stop.
2. A horn is intended as a warning signal, which it was used in, in this case.
3. The man was given the option to move, and did not.
4. He was tapped on the knees AFTER the driver INITIALLY stopped, which was a prodding method.
5. Pedestrian assaulted driver's vehicle
6. Driver protected personal property
7. Pedestrian got what was coming to him.
8 Cops agreed, let driver go.
9. Nuff said.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong Driver kept edging forwards into crosswalk despite heavy pedestrian crossing directly in front of him.
Using car to push or bump pedestrians is unacceptable and can be cause for citation.
Pedestrian slapped hood in response, caused no damage, was not given a chance to move on.
Driver ran red light to intentionally run over pedestrian.
Green means "proceed if safe to do so", not GO.
Pedestrians have right of way on crosswalks&intersections
Drivers not allowed to strike pedestrians
whatthehellpeople 3 months ago 2
@whatthehellpeople "Driver kept edging forwards into crosswalk despite heavy pedestrian crossing directly in front of him."
Nope. The crosswalk was about 10-15 feet back from where the hood slapping took place. These were clearly jaywalkers.
"Using car to push or bump pedestrians is unacceptable and can be cause for citation."
The driver was cited.
"Driver ran red light to intentionally run over pedestrian."
Point out in which section of this SEPIA screen, that you see a clear red light.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong 1. Look up "11th and Broadway, Oakland CA" on google maps. Goto street view. Line up w/11th, the road the driver was traveling. If they aren't on the crosswalk, they are still crossing at an intersection, which is specifically mentioned in CA law.
2. You will also see the traffic signal. I don't know what world you live in, but here the top light is RED, the middle light is YELLOW, and the bottom light is GREEN. Even if you can't see the colors, look to see which of those is lit.
whatthehellpeople 3 months ago
@whatthehellpeople "You will also see the traffic signal" Yes, I have seen it. It was green, in favor of the driver, which means that the people that were crossing, were not only jaywalking, but they were also knowingly and willingly obstructing traffic. By all accounts, that is an arrest able offense. If anything, the "victims" as well as every other jay walker there, should have been put into the back of squad cars, ON THE SPOT.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong You are either blind or lying. What color is the top light on the traffic signals in your world?
The pedestrians were crossing at the corner of an intersection, where there was a crosswalk. If they were not directly on the crosswalk, they were crossing at the intersection, which is also protected.
Jaywalking is a matter of a fine. If they were jaywalking, and were cited for it, they would be issued a fine, not arrested. Unlike the man who tried to kill them with his car.
whatthehellpeople 3 months ago
@whatthehellpeople "Jaywalking is a matter of a fine. If they were jaywalking, and were cited for it, they would be issued a fine, not arrested"
They were jaywalking IN CONJUNCTION with purposely impeding traffic. That is an arrest worthy set of offenses. Personally, I would like to see nothing more than that entire group of law breaking protesters carted off to county jail for a few nights.
I also commend the driver for not taking their bullshit.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago in playlist Liked 2
@AndrewDeLong From CA DMV: "Drive cautiously when pedestrians are near because they may suddenly cross your path."
"Respect the right-of-way of pedestrians. Always stop for any pedestrian crossing at corners or other crosswalks, even if the crosswalk is in the middle of the block, at corners with or without traffic lights, whether or not the crosswalks are marked by painted lines."
whatthehellpeople 3 months ago
@whatthehellpeople Calif. Vehicle Code 21950. (b) The provisions of this section shall not relieve a pedestrian from the duty of using due care for his or her safety. No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard. No pedestrian shall unnecessarily stop or delay traffic while in a marked or unmarked crosswalk.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong They didn't suddenly leave the curb, they were walking. At the time they first stepped into the road to cross, the driver was more than ten feet away They only stopped because the driver kept honking and yelling at them, and forcing his way forward despite them having right of way. They weren't given a chance to move on again, as he then ran them over.
whatthehellpeople 3 months ago
@whatthehellpeople "They only stopped because the driver kept honking and yelling at them, and forcing his way forward despite them having right of way."
They did NOT have the legal right of way. They ignored traffic signals and decided that they could cross when they were NOT LEGALLY PERMITTED TO DO SO. The driver was simply brave enough to take back his legal right of way, and I and others commend him for it.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago in playlist Liked
@AndrewDeLong from CA DMV: "Remember, if a pedestrian makes eye contact with you, he or she is ready to cross the street. Yield to the pedestrian."
"Solid Green– Give the right-of-way to any vehicle, bicyclist, or pedestrian in the intersection. ... Do not enter the intersection if you cannot get completely across before the light turns red. If you block the intersection, you can be cited."
"Pedestrians have the right-of-way in crosswalks."
whatthehellpeople 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong "The driver was cited." Funny, you told me just a little while ago the driver wasn't cited, and was let go. Which is it?
And I've already told you before. Look at the traffic signal around the 8 or 9 second mark. It starts out yellow, then turns red right before he strikes the pedestrians. There is no color, so use your brain and look at the position on the signal-bar where the brightest glow is coming from. It starts at the middle light, then goes to the top light. YELLOW - RED
whatthehellpeople 3 months ago
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@whatthehellpeople ""The driver was cited." Funny, you told me just a little while ago the driver wasn't cited, and was let go. Which is it?"
No. I told you the driver was not charged with assault or attempted vehicular manslaughter. I have said throughout, however, that the driver was given the equivalent of a speeding ticket, via a citation.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@NObushma "The driver showed no intention to stop. He attracted attention to himself by repeatedly using horn as a weapon."
1) He did stop.
2) Show me where a horn is a classifiable weapon. ANYWHERE.
"You also have a right to defend it when being assaulted and THREATENED WITH FURTHER ASSAULT."
The motorist did just that. He defended against assault with further assault. Lesson learned, and motorist backed by the cops, the protester will not be so idiotic next time. That's the simple truth.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@NObushma "THE REST IS A FELONY. 10 YEARS IN PRISON. PERMANENT LOSS OF DRIVING RIGHTS."
In dreamland Nemo. In dreamland.
In reality, the dumb ass protester was given a chance to move, did NOT move, and attacked the car. Clearly, the intent to harm is from him. The motorist defends himself as best he can. Cops show up, give the motorist a DWI test, sends him on his way with a mere citation, practically a parking ticket.
Justice served, the protester will NOT attack personal property again.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
And well well well - heres an interesting follow-up video. Ironically the cop bangs on the hood to indicate that the driver could leave the scene. I wonder if the cop actually took any evidence of this incident before passing an innocent verdict? Since when were cops promoted to lawyer, jury, and judge? hmmm. And some ppl still think everything is dandy & theres nothing to protest about. :-\
Occupy Oakland General Strike BART police let driver of car that hit pedestrian go
/watch?v=o_UtVmPOYdI
ReanimatedResidue 3 months ago
Anyone else notice that the guy only banged on the hood when the driver began nudging toward him? Looked like the driver was threatening to do what he did.
Who gives a shit about the green light? Its obvious ppl were walking thru the intersection - thats what happens during protests. Simply put, just sit & wait for the crowd to pass. Was the driver really in so much of a hurry that he needed to force his way thru the masses? Im sure running ppl over really got him to his destination faster.
ReanimatedResidue 3 months ago
That was an idiot slapping a bonnet, and plain old fashion road rage & using a vehicle as a deadly weapon..
No damage done to the vehicle or person driving, so driver has no civil case of property damage or injuries to note. The man who slapped the bonnet apeared to be about to walk off, It is on a public road and no one can claim their vehicles are that prescious. If he was scared he would not of stopped the car at all. The driver was pissed off and reacted in anger IMO.
Rand0mManic 3 months ago 2
I would have shot that nigger fucktard full of holes.
TwiztidJ 3 months ago
Fuck that dumb nigger.I would have filed a pothole with his stinking ass.
These fucking apes need to be controlled or sent back to da mudderland to eat grubs and mud cookies, bathe in cow piss and live in a mud and shit hut.
Fucking worthless moolies.
Jamal0134 3 months ago
@Jamal0134 You do realize that the guy that got hit, wasn't black. Right?
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
@AndrewDeLong he was, search google "Man hit by car during 'Occupy' protest speaks out"
YOU5URF 3 months ago
@YOU5URF My bad. Seems my sources were a bit off. Thanks for the correction.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
I bet that libtard won't be banging on any more car hoods. Assholes like these SHOULD be run over.
AntiLiberal73 3 months ago
If I saw an ape banging on my car's hood, I'd take the opportunity to fill a few potholes too.
AFNenlighten 3 months ago
Looks to me like the one banging on the hood got slammed. What's the problem?
tonypybus 3 months ago
California law states that you are not allowed to hit a pedestrian with your your car however much you might be tempted. This driver needs to be found and interviewed. He knew he was at least flirting with accidental vehicular manslaughter here.
The cars full of children who grew up with me driving in the Bay Area can recite what I said often: "And yet, I'm *NOT* allowed to hit them!!"
It's the law.
katemckowen13 3 months ago 2
@katemckowen13 The law just took a vacation, and it's timing could not be better. That "pedestrian" was given ample time to vacate his position, and he did not. Hell, that driver can easily argue that he was merely protecting his property in the way that was safest for him to do so. I've seen dumber things fly in court.
Personally, I'm glad that "protester" got run over. He was acting like an ass and needed to be educated.
It's a simple rule of nature, really: Play with fire--> get burned.
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago in playlist Liked
@katemckowen13 If in fear for his life being surrounded by protesters who seem to be violent against people who drive mercedes he probably paniced and hit the gas, The drivers main mistake was driving in that area. They need to fence it off and let the OWS people dwell in peace, Thow stuff over the wall every week or so and let the live in a "Communal" setting.
TheStrazy 3 months ago
The got what they deserved.
dreamdrivedrift 3 months ago
The new york times is reporting that this took place in DC, not oakland. Also, it doesn't look like any part of oakland that I recognize.
lopside0 3 months ago
@lopside0 I double checked and it was definitely Oakland. Google "occupy oakland mercedes"
Coolins335 3 months ago
@lopside0 There was a very similar incident in DC a day or two after this happened. Except it was three pedestrians, one of them a kid.
whatthehellpeople 3 months ago
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@lopside0 This is in Oakland, CA at approx. 6:50 pm at 11th St on Broadway on 11-2-11. I witnessed the accident and have video posted as well. It really happened in Oakland. Police are still investigating the incident as of this post.
eelcloud 3 months ago
retard deserved it.
lawlzors 3 months ago
i think its kinda fkd up that he ran him over just because he was banging on his car, its not like his life was in some kind of danger. get out and beat his ass or something, running him over was just gonna provoke the other protesters then shit was gonna come down on that merc.
theory816 3 months ago
fucking owned!
grimreap22 3 months ago
Stupid protester got what he deserved.
GetRokked 3 months ago
Defending private property, there is nothing more American than that...why stand infront of someones car and pound the hood like that? No sympathy needed for this person.
JuanOfaKind88 4 months ago
@JuanOfaKind88 WINNER.
jctafrotc0011 3 months ago
Deserved it.
finekilla 4 months ago
I would have done the same fucking thing. Fucking stupid protester - the hell did he hit the car like that for just to be a dick? What a fag.
treysparker 4 months ago
Bet he doesn't do that again.
pcsutton01 4 months ago
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR
itzxx420l33tHALOxxzz 4 months ago
The second the retard ran over the other guy liberty to enjoy his car, the car owner was doing his constitutional work protecting private property imo.
BarelyScientist 4 months ago
idiot got what he deserved.
suberkin 4 months ago
deserves it
skat0r 4 months ago
I sympathise with the man who was hit, but he was being a trememdous dick.
I also sympathise with the driver, as at the scene, this must have been quite intimidating. But he went way over the top.
Why does one person have to be 'in the right', and another 'in the wrong'? Is it so hard to accept the mistakes were made on both sides?
Walkingeverforward 4 months ago
Shame if he didn't die.
l33tt4lk 4 months ago
Fucking faggot. I hope he is dead.
LGB357 4 months ago
@BestTechnoTrance The car had a green light and the right of way & was alerting the pedestrians who were illegally pouring into the street that there are cars present and moving.
piefrance 4 months ago
You don't run people over for hitting a strong piece of metal...
haroldmethven 4 months ago
@haroldmethven You're right, you don't run people over for hitting a strong piece of metal. Instead, people get hurt when they illegally cross into traffic, become hostile with drivers and try to keep a car from moving in its path.
piefrance 4 months ago
@piefrance
Unfortunately, jaywalking and illegally blocking traffic for a few seconds still doesn't provide a legal justification for deliberately hospitalizing someone.
11111110 4 months ago
@11111110 Unfortunately that wan't the case. The guy honked at him many times and he stood there and started hitting the car. This goes pass jaywalikng. That bitch deserved what he got.
sevens2 4 months ago
@sevens2
Blocking traffic is illegal, but its impossible to make the case that someone was legitimately blocking traffic when they did it for all of FIVE SECONDS.
And even so, you still don't have a right to run over people blocking traffic.
11111110 4 months ago
@11111110 I guess you didn't get the memo then that this driver hasn't yet been charged with anything. The driver was put in a threatening situation. If Casey Anthony can get away with murdering her precious little girl, I'm sure this driver can get out of taking down this hostile f*ckwad.
piefrance 4 months ago
@piefrance
Oh, well if Casey Anthony can get away with murder, then why have laws at all? You're right
11111110 4 months ago
Had it coming
dasstrooper 4 months ago
its great news to hear that NO charges will be filed against the driver.
The driver was surrounded by a mob and was clearly threatened
tradernorton05 4 months ago
Hope that arrogant moron learnt a lesson.
o456l 4 months ago
Continued ;
damage to the car as I'm sure the car owner will be responsible for the ticket he got.
lotusespritguy 4 months ago
Facts;
-this is city street where traffic is flowing.
-fool actually walks in front of car and DOESN'T GET HIT.
-guy sounds horn several times as do other drivers.
-fool starts yelling things at driver STILL DOESN'T GET HIT.
-fool starts pounding on the hood of the someone else's personal property.
-fool final gets hit.
I see this as a matter of the drivers personal safety and I challenge any HONEST human who says they wouldn't react similarly. Hope the fool is held accountable for the da
lotusespritguy 4 months ago 2
@lotusespritguy Well said.
theleftymonster 4 months ago
@lotusespritguy
I don't think its unreasonable to expect people to *not* deliberately plow through you with their car.
Still, let's just call for everybody to take responsibility for their own actions. The pedestrian will get written up for jaywalking, and the driver will get written up for attempted murder
11111110 4 months ago
if that guy/gal got his car through hard honest work and some fool decides to pound the bonnet they can only expect to get ran over i would do the same everytime.
miloaudus 4 months ago
I think the driver just got freaked out and panicked. It a shitty thing, for sure, but because he's in a car doesn't necessarily make him feel safe, especially if some punk who feels empowered by all the people around him starts to smash up the hood. Maybe his wife was in the car too... Maybe his kids...
MrSuperFilmBuff 4 months ago
Too bad they wern't run over and dragged to a painful death . Scum bag occupiers .
hanksnow82 4 months ago
throw him in jail. This kind of stuff is not a joke.
euge447 4 months ago
I can understand them standing in front of a car but banging and hitting the car means he does not like the driver and the driver felt threatened and did not want someone to pull him out and beat him so he defended himself and the car. I mean for real who does that hitting an innocent guys car who just wants to go to his location.... it aint right
Lufty25 4 months ago
"The two people who were hit, a man and a woman, suffered leg and ankle injuries that were not life-threatening, said BART Police Deputy Chief Daniel Hartwig."
cunt 4 months ago
they weren't killed. The guy honked his horn several times. Parents teach you young "look both ways before crossing the road" so why were these idiots on the road in front of a car? and as the guy honks the horn for them to move, the pedestrian starts beating on his car? again, back to kindergarten "don't touch what isn't yours"
nobody gives a fuck that the pedestrian provoked the driver though, people only see what the driver did wrong. i bet they won't do it again though. =]
cunt 4 months ago
This guy is a poor excuse of OWS and totally missed the point of this protest.....and yes the guy got what he deserved.. he called the guy out and the guy messed him up.. simple as that...I bet this guy will not go around hitting people's cars again
Monasukapanough 4 months ago 12
@Monasukapanough What the hell? No one deserves to be run over. The fact that you could disregard a human life with such careless apathy truly scares me. All human life is sacred. I don't care who you are or what you've done, if you are brought into this world, you have a right to live.
FML421 4 months ago
@FML421 And the guy driving that car has a right not to have himself threatened or have his property damaged....We have a right to defend our property. He clearly gave the guy plenty of chances to move...but the guy taunted and then proceded to damage his car....the guy was also crossing when the cars had the right of way...that light is GREEN.
Monasukapanough 4 months ago
@Monasukapanough You got it wrong, obviously the protesters MUST have their rights granted or they will whine, scream and chant like robots....but if they feel like preventing someone else for exercising their rights it is OK.
Not that we have that cleared up....make way cause I am coming through!!!!!!!!!
Cobalt135 4 months ago
@Monasukapanough Obviously you either didn't pay attention in driver's ed, or you never took it. The pedestrian has right of way at ALL TIMES. If he tapped him, I wouldn't give two shits about his whales. In fact, if someone was doing that to me, I'd definitely tap him. As for being threatened, I do not see this as incredibly threatening. It would piss me off a bit that he would be so rude, but I definitely would not run him over. This is an incredibly blatant over-reaction.
FML421 3 months ago
@FML421 Obviously you do not know walking in the path of on coming cars means your getting hit by a car....obviously you don't know when you have the red light it means stop, don't cross, don't walk.....and obviously you don't know that when you see a cross walk, it means walk IN the cross walk..not in the MIDDLE of a INTERSECTION lmao.... and listen to ALL the cars blowing their horns...these people had been blocking the path of cars for quite some time....they was refusing to let cars pass...
Monasukapanough 3 months ago
@FML421 "This is an incredibly blatant over-reaction."
No, it's not. It's a perfectly fine reaction. The so called "pedestrian" was given ample time to remove himself from the temporarily stopped vehicle. Instead, he decided to fight the vehicle, fist to hood. In the eyes of many vehicle owners, that's effectively seen as waving one's right to pedestrian protection. It certainly seems to be the popular sentiment on these forums, and the police effectively agreed, by NOT arresting the driver
AndrewDeLong 3 months ago
Jaywalking is an informal term commonly used in North America to refer to illegal or reckless pedestrian crossing of a roadway. Examples include a pedestrian crossing between intersections (outside or, in some jurisdictions, also inside a marked or unmarked crosswalk) without yielding to drivers and starting to cross a crosswalk at a signalized intersection without waiting for a permissive indication to be displayed.
Monasukapanough 4 months ago
@Monasukapanough RIGHT OF WAY! If I was in that crowd, I'd have led to the lynching of that driver.
betoayak 3 months ago
Apparently a luxury car is worth more than a human life. I can’t believe this guy walked away free of charge.
He shouldn’t have pounded on the bonnet like that, yeah, but to run two people over because of it? This is grotesque.
The Occupy protests are getting more and more violent, simply lining the world up for an all-out class war.
Nezzib 4 months ago
@Nezzib
Yeah, because when confronted by a hostile, aggressive person who is preventing you from leaving a volatile crowd it is best to let them do whatever they like.
SomeGuyYeah007 4 months ago
You've got to be fucking kidding me. When is EVER okay to just run over someone? We have no idea exactly what went down between the driver and pedestrian, but from where I am sitting, the dude in the car nearly ran over two people, and the pedestrian confronted him about it. Possibly inappropriately, but that doesn't justify vehicular manslaughter. Damage to a car does not equal damage to a person.
alirewritesherlife 4 months ago
I don't usually comment on youtube videos but this is ridiculous
Look i get that the protester had no right to hit the guy's car and was being an obnoxious asshole by doing so...he's a jerk
BUT there is never a reason to intentionally run a man over in your car. That takes someone with absolutely no soul and it is ridiculous that people think he deserved it!! No one ever deserves to be brutally injured or killed. You people are sick
mattbbernstein 4 months ago
"how dare you put your hands on a car you can't afford?" What the hell is wrong with you? That's like saying "how dare you touch my window, you can't afford it." It's not as if he was damaging the car. Hitting a car is not threatening at all. He definitely shouldn't have been taunting him. It gives a bad name to the protest. But who the hell runs someone over for touching your car? That's like shooting someone because they flicked your ear.
FML421 4 months ago
@FML421 the fact of the matter is, you never know what people are going to do. so why even provoke them? People do crazy things, why make it worse? why even put yourself in a situation like that when it isn't necessary? and i could HEAR him pounding on the dudes car, so i'd be very surprised if there wasn't any damage. Why were they standing in the middle of the road when the driver clearly had a green light, which means pedestrians aren't supposed to walk. maybe they shouldn't be so stupid.
cunt 4 months ago