It doesn’t appear that anybody died, so you probably haven’t seen this. But yesterday a man allegedly drove into a crowd of protestors… kind of like the Alt-Right has been suggesting people do for years. Kind of like one person actually did in the attack that killed Heather Heyer.
The protestors were gathered around Congressman Ed Royce’s (R-CA) office yesterday. They were protesting his immigration policies when a slow moving motorist drove into the crowd. What video there is of the attack is here.
The alleged driver, Daniel Wenzek, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, booked… AND THEN RELEASED pending further investigation.
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I have a hard time believing Dibi al-Wenzek could drive his car into a crowd of people and then get released, pending further investigation. From Splinter:
“I think he was trying to get through the crowd,” Lt. Adam Hawley told the News Tribune. “We don’t have any indication he was trying to harm somebody.”
Authorities have since released Wenzek—who was convicted in 2006 of committing “lewd and lascivious acts” with a child—pending further investigation.
They’re treating it like a damn traffic accident. “We don’t have any indication he was trying to harm somebody.” He drove his car INTO A CROWD OF PEOPLE! Are there good people, on both sides, of his windshield? Did the cops at least call him a cab home, or did they just release him and his weapon of choice back out onto the streets?
Even if he wasn’t “politically motivated” in a terrorism sense, he at the very least saw a crowd of people and thought “F**k it, I need to get home.” Can we AT LEAST ask him to MAKE BAIL?
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As usual, the “free speech” crowd is silent about this. If Daniel Wenzek had used the “Heckler’s veto,” they’d be crawling all over your Facebook page, decrying the break down of the First Amendment. But since he just tried to violently attack people actually exercising their free speech rights, it’s crickets from the white guy who really cares about the First Amendment near you.
Remember, the threat to free speech are college kids with placards and not someone driving a Trecel into the middle of a crowd.
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Earlier:
Being A First Amendment Hero Is Easy When The Cost Is Other People’s Blood