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Originally Posted by wahoo3
except people have driven through protesters, a bunch, and i can only find one who was charged with a crime, and he hit 5 people and broke a woman's pelvis. and he was charged with misdemeanor provoking an assault, punishable by a fine of not more than $500.
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Originally Posted by CrimLaw Digest
I am charged with assault in state court in Pennsylvania for running over a pedestrian with my car. My lawyer tells me that two types of assault require the District Attorney to show that I used a deadly weapon in committing the assault. I had no weapon on me, i.e. gun, knife, etc., but she says that my car is the weapon. Is this true?
Yes. Your lawyer is absolutely correct. You can be charged with Aggravated Assault as felony of the second degree if you either intentionally or knowing caused bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon. Also you can be charged with Simple Assault as a misdemeanor of the second degree if you negligently cause bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon.
The Superior Court and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania have both held that a car can be the deadly weapon for the purpose of a conviction for assault as stated above...
Uh, it's big government run amok. What did you expect. People are charged with vehicular ADW all the time. Big government's agents routinely execute perps for this shiz... when the pedestrian happens to be one of their own.
Even if it was legal to run people over with cars, people shouldn't do it.
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Originally Posted by problemeliminator
someone on this page said they expect the anti Trump march to get 1m (in DC?). Id be estatic if it was 1/10 that.
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Originally Posted by Guardian
Women's March on Washington set to be one of America's biggest protests
... Larry Sabato, director of the center for politics at the University of Virginia, cited anti-Vietnam war demonstrations and civil rights-era protests that attracted crowds up to half a million as among the most prominent in US history – so far.
“It’s never happened that so many people have gathered in opposition to the new administration on day one,” said Sarsour. “Will it be the largest US mass mobilization ever? I’ll be able to tell you on January 22.”...
There is a long history of peeps arguing over crowd counts. The Park Police have a track record of spewing loltastically low estimates. So afterwards, it'll be a matter of picking the numbers you like. No matter how you count it, it's going to be huge.