A rare victory for sanity.
A California truck driver who was forced to bowl through Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioters as they were occupying a busy street in order to get to safety will not receive any criminal charges, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office has announced.
Prosecutors noted the hostility of the far-left agitators as they occupied the road and obstructed traffic. They posed an obvious threat to the safety of the driver, who may have been beaten by a gang of thugs if he had stopped.
“Traffic continued to proceed through the intersection, and ultimately a low speed collision occurred between a white pick-up truck and two protestors standing in the roadway on northbound Victoria Avenue,” the DA’s office stated in a press release.
The authorities noted that the truck driver alerted them to what happened as soon as he was away from the mob and safe. Witnesses captured video that was analyzed to determine that the trucker did nothing worthy of criminal charges.
One such video can be viewed here:
“As protesters pounded on his vehicle, the motorist and his passenger, who was pregnant, believed that the passenger compartment would be breached and they would be physically harmed. At that point, the motorist acted in reasonable fear for his and his passengers’ physical safety and proceeded forward,” the release stated.
“Based on these facts, there is insufficient evidence to establish that the collision was the result of...