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Higgs wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Was talking last night about everything. The way Trump speaks about it makes me think something really bad is going to happen. Not that it hasn't already, but I'm talking some national guardsman who was activated and thrown into this position will open fire on a crowd. Or some militia member who had their house that is the first one "on the good side of the tracks" damaged is gonna rally his reich and take matters into their own hands and then not get punished for it.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Was talking last night about everything. The way Trump speaks about it makes me think something really bad is going to happen. Not that it hasn't already, but I'm talking some national guardsman who was activated and thrown into this position will open fire on a crowd. Or some militia member who had their house that is the first one "on the good side of the tracks" damaged is gonna rally his reich and take matters into their own hands and then not get punished for it.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Was talking last night about everything. The way Trump speaks about it makes me think something really bad is going to happen. Not that it hasn't already, but I'm talking some national guardsman who was activated and thrown into this position will open fire on a crowd. Or some militia member who had their house that is the first one "on the good side of the tracks" damaged is gonna rally his reich and take matters into their own hands and then not get punished for it.

McParadigm wrote:Fox News this morning: “This is an insurrection. We need a Maginot line.”
Cops: (constantly caught on video assaulting people who are not taking part in any rioting)
Tom Cotton: “Send in the 101st Airborne” against American citizens
Donald Trump:

Conservative voters: “Sure sounds like the good guys to me”

(a week earlier)
Medical experts: “Wearing a mask can help prevent COVID tra-“
Conservative voters (mouth hanging open): I have seen the face of tyranny.”

Truck driver didn't intend to hit protesters on 35W bridge, Minnesota authorities say

State authorities said Monday that the driver of tanker truck did not intend to hit anyone when he drove onto the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, sending protesters running for their lives.

Government officials say the trucker, 35-year-old Bogdan Vechirko, may not have realized that I-35W and other interstates had been closed as part of the ongoing unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd last week after an encounter with Minneapolis police.

No injuries among demonstrators have been confirmed, the officials said.

State Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said Vechirko, driving an empty fuel tanker truck from Interstate 94 on 35W, was speeding but did not go around any barricades and was not acting intentionally.

As Harrington was making his comments at a midday news conference, Vechirko, of Otsego, remained jailed without bail on suspicion of assault and has yet to be charged with any traffic or more serious count.

“He was speeding” when he got to the bridge, Harrington said, “he saw the crowd initially and he panicked.”

Harrington said Vechirko told authorities the he saw “a young woman on a bike fall down in front of him, and he hit the brakes. ... There is not any information that makes this seem like this was an intentional act.”

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One motorist, Meaghan Pezon, told the Star Tribune that said she encountered no barricades blocking traffic onto the bridge in the minutes before the truck barreled through the crowd. Pezon was heading home from a day on Lake Minnetonka, driving north toward Roseville on I-35, where she saw about 10 cars heading the wrong way toward her.

“I was confused and knew I should probably turn around, but there was no good place for me to do it,” she said. “I got to the Washington bridge, and my car was surrounded by protesters. When a protester first approached me, there were no police, no barricades, no indication that 35 was closed.”

As police swarmed the area and protesters dispersed, she turn onto an entrance ramp, going the wrong way.

“I really had no idea what was happening on the bridge,” she said. “I just thought I was going home.”