The Car Becomes the Weapon
I am trying to look at this rationally: how is this not similar to protesting in the middle of a shooting range? You have high speed bodies coming your way that might not stop.<p>I am sorry but I will find it reasonable and I am sure I will react the same personally, and bolt (in a car or not) if a number of people start throwing stuff at me and have visibly aggressive intentions. That is the natural self-preservation reaction of fight or flight. And if you are already running, it is likely you are going to take the flight option -- this is biology and evolution.<p>Thus according to the article: are you damned if you stay and get lynched, damned if you drive away?<p>Also, I thought it was a fact that the main danger for a majority of police officers and workers was oncoming traffic collisions -- that is why there are laws requiring drivers to slow down and change lanes when seeing the visible emergency lighting of vehicles on the side of the street! And still people get hit and die regularly.<p>Finally, a legal and insurance fun fact (at least in some states): if you take actions to block a road (in a vehicle or not), you are deemed responsible for an accident if it occurs. This is called traffic obstruction (quick google: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.princelawfirm.net&#x2F;whos-responsible-for-an-accident-caused-by-a-traffic-obstruction&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.princelawfirm.net&#x2F;whos-responsible-for-an-accide...</a>). Please read the law and be objective as a journalist.