Here we go. The excuse the driver is going to use. Trending now on Twitter.

[Cattledog]

He was fearful as leftist protesters swarmed his vehicle, some acting violent. So he tried to escape to save his life.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Bullshit trolls.

[DURHAM D]

2. The videos don't support that crap.

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Uh huh.

Just like the behemoth wife abuser who was afraid for his life because she kept throwing her face at his fist.


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[Control-Z]

15. There's actually a lot of that going around.

When will women just knock it off?

[dchill]

4. Good luck with that.

[hlthe2b]

5. Meh.. that won't play in Charlottesville court proceedings.... Sort of like the CO guy who went home

after a verbal argument with his neighbor to get his AR15, returned to shoot and kill him (neighbor unarmed) and then tried to claim self-defense.

You can claim anything you want as defense, but the video is damning (as, I'd imagine will be his history)

[BigmanPigman]

6. They said his car had dents from baseball bats

therefore it is justifiable homicide. Fuck that BS!
Maybe the cops should have tried to stop the violence when it started instead of standing there and watching.

[sheshe2]

28. His car had dents from the bodies hitting his car!!!

[BigmanPigman]

34. They twist everything to me fit their agenda.

I love the alt-right statement, "The other group was attacking us. We were there to protect our group from them" as a reason for their actions.

[Leghorn21]

7. Sorry, don't know how to post video yet, but the second one at this link says it all to me

http://ir.net/news/politics/126763/breaking-raw-video-footage-car-plowing-anti-kkk-protesters-virginia/

PLENTY of time to stop or slow down, with no one anywhere near car.

[appleannie1943]

8. He spun his tires over two blocks away and gained speed the full two blocks till he hit them. What

is to fear from people standing quietly two blocks away? If he is that scared, he should have never had a licence to drive in the first place.

[Roland99]

9. Bingo!

[bluestarone]

10. especially because

he was going wrong direction to get away

[NightWatcher]

11. Sorry terrorist, you're getting life in prison for that one

[jmowreader]

23. I wouldn't be so sure about that one

CNN is reporting the federal government has opened an investigation into this. There's a pretty good chance this shit is going to be declared a hate crime, and the terrorist would then be facing the needle.

[Warpy]

12. Too much video for that

showing him accelerating up a mostly empty street toward the crowd (not away from it) with no brake lights as he approached.

Leaving the scene in reverse with it floored, even though there were a few scattered people along the street, is also going to damn him.

He's going to have to be one hell of a salesman to pull this off even in a southern town.

[obamanut2012]

25. "even in a southern town" -- just stop that garbage

Charlottesville was chosen for a reason. It is very blue -- 80% for HRC -- and very diverse. The same goes for Richmond, Chapel Hill, Durham, Asheville, Austin, SOFL -- I am sick of this South bashing. I had friends were protested today, including some beaten and gassed by those bastards. All my friends are Virginians.

Most of the terrorists in Cville were from CA, Ohio, etc. They were not local.

[Warpy]

35. It's still a southern town

and even though I'm the first to admit college towns are full of liberal folks and big cities are changing a lot, the power structure is still southern and open to a certain amount of corruption that favors the white nationalist type.

We'd see more of that in action if this dumb bastard weren't an outsider.

Some things change faster than others.

[milestogo]

13. Was he planning to become a police officer?

[Dream Girl]

14. The old "I was scared" defense. Works every time. Nt

[milestogo]

16. It does. And people know that.

[brush]

32. Yep! He got that line from the coward, killer cops. His is the terrorist version.

"I feared for my life as I gunned the engine of my car and ran those people down."

[Shandris]

17. Yes, that's why he had the torque necessary to make people go airborne.

Because his car was 'swarmed'.

Reminds me of South Park.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. Video doesn't support that claim.

[Ilsa]

33. His car looked perfectly fine before he

Executed his murderous plan.

[yardwork]

19. George Zimmerman got away with that lie because there wasn't any video. This time there is.

Quite a bit of recording, and dozens of witnesses. I hope he doesn't get away with this murder.

[TexasBushwhacker]

20. He wasn't fearful enough to keep from traveling

all the way from Ohio.

[Weekend Warrior]

21. Didn't he reverse and leave down a damn near empty street? Nt

[Barack_America]

22. Laughable. "Escape" was behind him...

...as he clearly demonstrated by throwing his car in reverse after hitting everyone.

He was panicked after he hit people; in his panic he immediately thought to go backwards, not forwards.

[KelleyKramer]

24. The airbags were disabled or removed

This was planned ahead, period!

[riderinthestorm]

26. I noticed that too! I wondered if that's why the police are saying it was pre-meditated nt

[GusBob]

27. This might actually work with the right jury

"I was defending my precious Dodge from the clawing hordes!"

They were scratching the paint

[annabanana]

29. So; He was escaping at full speed right into a crowd?

THAT oughta play well...

[Vinca]

30. Unlikely he's bright enough to come up with an excuse like that.

He's more apt to stand in his cell and swear allegiance to his cause while making a Hitler salute.

[Hieronymus]

31. Two witnesses on MSNBC said differently.