I don't see it hitting anybody squarely in the head. Looks like a couple of people may have gotten hit as they were trying to dart away from the oncoming statue. Not at all clear if they took hard hits, or any hits at all. What's clear is that the girls sitting up high on the monument suddenly look panicked and horrified, but there's a pretty long delay between that and the part where you first see the statue tumbling past or into a couple of people's heads.
I very much doubt anyone was killed by getting hit in the head while they were standing. What happened when the statue hit the ground was not visible, but was the most likely to cause critical injury or death. If somebody who fell down trying to avoid the falling statue, or was knocked down as it fell, may have already been on the ground when gravity finished with the statue. Getting one's head or chest crushed between the falling statue and the presumably concrete or asphalt ground covering, could certainly have been fatal, though probably not immediately.
I once witnessed an accident where a woman driving a small car got knocked out and had her skull exposed when an overhead traffic light crashed down on her. Looked horrifying, but she ended up being okay. Convulsing doesn't prove anything about severity the injury, other than that it hasn't killed the person (at least not yet). People survive this kind of thing all the time. He's probably young and physically healthy, like most of these "protestors", so less likely to die or suffer permanent brain damage.
I don't see it hitting anybody squarely in the head. Looks like a couple of people may have gotten hit as they were trying to dart away from the oncoming statue. Not at all clear if they took hard hits, or any hits at all. What's clear is that the girls sitting up high on the monument suddenly look panicked and horrified, but there's a pretty long delay between that and the part where you first see the statue tumbling past or into a couple of people's heads.
I very much doubt anyone was killed by getting hit in the head while they were standing. What happened when the statue hit the ground was not visible, but was the most likely to cause critical injury or death. If somebody who fell down trying to avoid the falling statue, or was knocked down as it fell, may have already been on the ground when gravity finished with the statue. Getting one's head or chest crushed between the falling statue and the presumably concrete or asphalt ground covering, could certainly have been fatal, though probably not immediately.
I once witnessed an accident where a woman driving a small car got knocked out and had her skull exposed when an overhead traffic light crashed down on her. Looked horrifying, but she ended up being okay. Convulsing doesn't prove anything about severity the injury, other than that it hasn't killed the person (at least not yet). People survive this kind of thing all the time. He's probably young and physically healthy, like most of these "protestors", so less likely to die or suffer permanent brain damage.