If you can't drive away from a violent mob who has surrounded your car and is attacking it with bats, which includes a gunman who threatened you earlier (Dwayne Dixon), at a merciful max speed of 23 mph - without getting a 1st degree murder conviction and prison for life - what incentive is there to show extreme restraint and caution like Fields did? Why wouldn't the next driver whose car is surrounded and attacked by antifa not plow into them at 100 mph repeatedly if he's guaranteed prison for life no matter what happens (or doing nothing and likely being killed by the mob)?
Is this the message that the legal system intended to send with this verdict?
Is there some weird legal obligation in the US to place the safety of your assailants above your own? Are you legally obligated to sacrifice your life to ensure the safety of those physically attacking you?
Hudson Collins
I agree that this is the message. If he gets over 20 years, it's completely fucked.
Bentley Martinez
Isn't there an incredibly strong case for an appeal here to have the charge reduced to possibly manslaughter?
Ethan Long
The retard wasn't force to drive up to the mob. He did that on his own, with ample opportunity to turn away from them. He also posted memes about running people over. Anyone defending him is a false flagging shill or literal retard. tldr; kys faggot.
Eli Garcia
>He also posted memes about running people over. Memes are now evidence, top kek.
The mob wasn't forced to surround his car and attack it with bats, were they?
But when they did, Fields was forced to flee, and given that he was completely surrounded, there was only one way to flee - through part of the mob. It was the mob's fault entirely for attacking him, there is no other reasonable conclusion.
Don't want to get hit by a car? Don't form a mob to surround and attack it. Pretty simple.
Benjamin White
Everyone posted memes about running niggers over during the BLM riots. Even conservicucks posted those memes. Do you forget that? A group of commies gathered during a state of emergency blocking the way out and waved guns at him.
Justin Rodriguez
Don't worry, this case has strong appeal potential.
Owen Reyes
This. I don't know where he stopped for police but I don't think it was a hit-and-run. Dude was scared and on the verge of tears.
Brandon Lee
It's simple geometry. A point trapped inside a circle has to cross over the circle to exit. When that circle is a violent mob who has already started attacking your car with bats, what are you expected to do? Sit there and let them beat you / kill you?
Robert Cox
>The mob wasn't forced to surround his car and attack it with bats, were they? And he wasn't forced to drive up to the mob and slam the gas pedal. I hope you idiots pull a brain dead move like him and end up in prison for life, except most of you probably don't own cars.
Oliver Rogers
Sure, but the hit-and-run also (i believe) includes how you turn yourself in for the scene. I don't know the procedure for that or how he stopped.
Aaron Torres
The mob wasn't forced to surround his car and attack it with bats, were they?
Robert Hall
upvoted
Oliver Hall
The hit and run rules are very different when you're fleeing for your life from a violent mob who is covering a large area (which police had basically abandoned at that point). He is allowed (within reason) to drive away from the threat before stopping.
Luis Sanchez
It's still a hit and run even if you realize you are fucked and stop and report it later. This guy is too low-iq and dangerous to be allowed in public let alone operate a motor vehicle.
Lincoln Thompson
Premeditated. If you weren't planning on killing someone, why did you bring your car to a street? Guilty.
Nathaniel Green
Go ahead and voluntarily drive up to a mob, run them over, and go to prison for life if you think that makes sense.
Grayson Lewis
Racist
Benjamin Cox
Here is what happens when you don't drive away from a violent mob. Reginald Denny, pulled from his vehicle (a 27+ ton dump truck), 91 skull fractures, pushed into his brain, left eye falling into his sinus cavity. It's a medical miracle he didn't die.
At least James Fields managed to escape with his life. Better to be judged (unfairly) by 12 than carried by 6. Now he at least has a shot at an appeal. A corpse has no such luck.
You should apologize for killing Heather Heyer. You and every other antifa terrorist or sympathizer who constantly post illegal bullshit about "punching" and "smashing" your political opponents kill her. You killed Heather Heyer - by encouraging idiots to form violent mobs like that around cars. You killed her. Shame on you.
No, it was illegal for him to crash into people (manslaughter). Then there was a bunch of evidence that he wanted to run them over (intent to murder): >(1) He drove up to them instead of taking a detour. Who drives up to a mob when they clearly can't get through the road. >(2) He posted memes joking about running people over. What a coincidence. >(3) He later called the land whale his "enemy" and said he didn't care she died. I don't know how else to explain how clear the case was against him. You fags are an embarrassment who severely hurt our cause with your low-iq bullshit. Again, go run people over if you think that's a good idea, and enjoy prison where you won't have access to Jow Forums and at least we will be rid of you.
Julian Butler
It's not illegal to drive through part of a violent mob attacking you if that is your only escape route (and it was), provided that you try to minimize damage (which Fields did). Intentional attacks would have caused far more casualties and involved repeated rammings.
>(1) He drove up to them instead of taking a detour. Not an argument. That's within his legal rights and it's not clear that he perceived a better route or at what distance he realized it was blocked. How did he know other routes wouldn't be blocked as well? Blocking the road is illegal though, the mob is at fault here not Fields.
>(2) He posted memes joking about running people over. What a coincidence. Not an argument. And quite possibly a coincidence. Many people posted memes like that. Memes don't prove intent, actions do. His actions prove he was showing extreme restraint and caution (stopping when he saw the crowd, only driving when they attacked his car, etc). That's the evidence that proves his intent had no malice.
>(3) He later called the land whale his "enemy" and said he didn't care she died. Not an argument. Doesn't prove intent. It's also something that happened after the incident, not before or leading up to it. The strongest evidence that he had no malice was that he 1) stopped completely before the crowd, 2) only drove away once his car was attacked and 3) failed to return to repeatedly ram the crowd at higher speeds which would be expected of someone committing a deliberate attack.
Go form violent mobs around cars and get yourself killed if you think that's a good idea, enjoy the grave where at least we will be rid of you.
What's the lesson here? The cops are setting themselves up for lawsuits by trying to clean up the nigger dens. Easier and most importantly cheaper to just let the niggers kill each other and do the paperwork after, since there's almost no spillover into other communities. You saw with the ZimZam and that parole officer in Oklamhoma, first degree murder is now a meme. When a piece of shit dies, it's less expensive to go for something that won't stick than to lock someone up for performing social hygiene. Conversely, if you show up at a freak show, looking to observe and perhaps participate in some mischief, if something expensive happens like a fat cunt dying, you can expect for that meme to come back on you to discourage future idiots.
Austin Martinez
>it's not clear that he perceived a better route or at what distance he realized it was blocked. If he can't see his road is blocked from a distance, he shouldn't be allowed to drive. > Memes don't prove intent, actions do. You mean like the action of crashing into people after slamming the gas pedal and driving into them? >ailed to return to repeatedly ram the crowd at higher speeds Christ you fags are so low-iq. "He only crashed into them once" is not a defense for crashing into a crowd. >Go form violent mobs No thank you, I'm not an idiot like you fags.
Juan Richardson
Sorry, if you are stupid enough to form a violent masked mob carrying weapons and surround and attack a car, you can't blame anyone but yourself when the driver understandably fears for his life and has to drive through part of the mob to get away. The left basically killed Heather Heyer.
>but muh illegal roadblocking Not an argument. Other people don't have to curtail their legal rights and freedoms to accommodate your illegal activity. It's the mob's fault for surrounding and attacking his car and that's all there is to it.
