Two blocks away, where he came from, there are videos of communists breaking windows out of cars and attacking the drivers. There is a twitter post from a communist professor thanking Spikes Tactical for his rifle, that he claims in the post he used to threaten James Fields and chase him towards that crowd. The entire day had hundreds of videos showing extreme violence up to and including makeshift flamethrowers being used. There is video evidence of damage to his vehicle before he hit anyone. There is video evidence of him swerving around people and hitting the brakes at various times, which isn't what you do if you want to strike those people. I don't know what was in Field's heart, but I do know that there's plenty of exculpatory evidence and it's clear that he got absolutely railroaded.
This SUV had a thousand feet too at some point; they weren't threatened, until they were. Is it ok to ask why they didn't just turn around and avoid this? No, it's immoral to ask victims why they didn't do something else to avoid a situation. I'll afford Fields the same leeway any other victim gets; no expectation of perfection or anything close to it. If the mob doesn't want to get plowed over, they should avoid being violent.
But you would win the court case
The guy at Charlottesville was sentenced to 400 years in jail for doing pretty much exactly what OP suggested.
Two blocks away, where he came from, there are videos of communists breaking windows out of cars and attacking the drivers. There is a twitter post from a communist professor thanking Spikes Tactical for his rifle, that he claims in the post he used to threaten James Fields and chase him towards that crowd. The entire day had hundreds of videos showing extreme violence up to and including makeshift flamethrowers being used. There is video evidence of damage to his vehicle before he hit anyone. There is video evidence of him swerving around people and hitting the brakes at various times, which isn't what you do if you want to strike those people. I don't know what was in Field's heart, but I do know that there's plenty of exculpatory evidence and it's clear that he got absolutely railroaded.
This SUV had a thousand feet too at some point; they weren't threatened, until they were. Is it ok to ask why they didn't just turn around and avoid this? No, it's immoral to ask victims why they didn't do something else to avoid a situation. I'll afford Fields the same leeway any other victim gets; no expectation of perfection or anything close to it. If the mob doesn't want to get plowed over, they should avoid being violent.