The back story remains unclear. There is nothing to show that he tried to run any protesters down, although claims to that effect have been made. Others say he came to the aid of a transgender woman being beaten by protesters, for which there is video, although it’s unclear what was happening.
But what was clear was that he crashed his truck following his attempt to get away and then things got worse.
As the driver sat on the ground, a person wearing a vest with “SECURITY” written on the front and back ran from behind and kicked the driver in the face, apparently knocking him unconscious, according to witnesses and multiple videos. The driver remained still on the ground with his eyes closed.
When did some random person who, inexplicably, has “SECURITY” written on his vest, get the authority to do this? If you hated it when the police did it, is it somehow better when it’s a mob without constraints being brutal?
If the alternative to a bad system run under the auspices of elected government is this, vicious and brutal beatings in the streets, we have a problem.
The alternative to bad isn’t necessarily good. It can always get worse. This is worse. In Houston Austin, an armed protester pointed a gun at a driver who was disinclined to give up his right to use the public roadways, and responded by pulling out his own gun and killing the person. Must every person carry a gun just in case someone who decided to write “SECURITY” on his vest feels entitled to beat whomever he chooses?
As bad as it was before, this is worse. Many will invent excuses, lies that only the truest of believers would accept, to justify this conduct. This was an oppressed black man, so he can beat someone because reasons. The mob remembers Heather Heyer, so they are justified in fearing anyone in a car might run them down, so they can beat him first. “Systems of oppression” are at work, so the woke must do what they must, even if it means a few beatings, to end them. The cops have been killing black men forever, so this isn’t as bad.
Are you ready to be beaten, maybe die? Are you really so woke that you can be as vicious and evil as the monster you hate? If beating others is what you want to do, you’re just as twisted as your worse enemy. Is that who you are?