A prosecutor in Oklahoma has decided not to charge a motorist who drove through a crowd of people protesting on an interstate following the death of George Floyd and is instead looking at whether to prosecute some of the protesters who were in the path of the vehicle.
The Tulsa County District Attorneys Office is asking the Highway Patrol to identify protesters from photos and videos for possible prosecution for doing what District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler described as using weapons and throwing projectiles and damaging the property of this family” in the vehicle.
Attorney Jonathan Nation, who represents one of three people who were injured during the May 31 protest, told the Tulsa World on Thursday that Kunzweilers stance is essentially blaming the protesters and essentially blaming the victims for their own injuries.
The newspaper obtained a memo from Kunzweiler in which he said: Although the claim may be that this was a peaceful protest, there was nothing peaceful about the targeting and attack upon this family.” The driver’s name has not been released.
Ryan Knight, who is from Tulsa, fell from an interstate overpass as the truck pulling a horse trailer drove through the group of protesters on Interstate 244. The 32-year-old was paralyzed from the waist down.
Good common sense ruling by the judge.
Fn police need to break up and arrest rioters in all these roadside blockades.
Multiple people shot, not enough run over with the cops allowing this BS to go on.
Are the horses okay?
I'm still not sure there were any horses in the trailer at the time. I believe the original reports of burned horses were false.
Correct.
If only Garrett Foster were around to wheel him over to the next "protest."
Fucking spicy
Check out these awesome stand up wheelchairs though!
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"Kunzweilers stance is essentially blaming the protesters and essentially blaming the victims for their own injuries."
Yes.
And that is also the correct verdict that any sane individual would come to.