Police said they arrested a man who drove his SUV through a “No Kings” protest Saturday, hitting at least one person.
The Culpeper Police Department (CPD) said officers stopped Joseph R. Checklick Jr, 21, of Culpeper after they saw him drive recklessly through the group in the area of 801 James Madison Hwy.
When “the others” do that, it’s called a terrorist attack.
It really comes around back home. How the USAns treated the people from the “shithole” countries, they now treat their own.
Checklick, who faces a charge of reckless driving, appeared before a magistrate. He was being held without bond at the Culpeper County Jail. Police said Checklick may face additional charges.
Where’s the attempted murder charge?
Cops aren’t lawyers. The charges they are booked with are not necessarily the charges they will face once the DA has heard from stakeholders.
You don’t need to interview people to know they pointed a vehicle at a crowd.
You also don’t need anything more than a couple perfunctory charges to arrest someone. It’s the lawyers’ job to figure out what the actual charges will be. Don’t ask too much from police, or you may get too much from police.
Edit: Murder is a much more technical charge with evidentiary requirements of intent. You have to have some kind of actual evidence in your possession that at the time of the attempt, they had the intention of murder in their mind. You don’t have that when arresting a guy at the scene of a chaotic, still evolving tragedy. You just don’t.
Bare minimum should be assault & battery with a deadly weapon.
Terrorism charges. Oh. A boy can dream.
Police said … Checklick “intentionally accelerated his vehicle into the dispersing crowd.” … faces a charge of reckless driving…
Dude intentionally accelerated his SUV into a crowd and gets charged with reckless driving. I sincerely hope it’s a felony at least.
I hope he gets a simple slap-on-the-wrist fine, but then ironically, he’s run over by a big rig the moment he steps out of the courthouse. I prefer my punishments ironic.
And then, for ultimate poetry, the big rig driver gets another slap on the wrist fine.
Final destination
Dear leader will pardon him. Same for the MN assassin.
Driving a car should get you shot.
Every time you turn the key (excuse the anachronism) you kill a fractional person. There should be the same odds that your car electrocutes you when you try to start it. Externalities all need to be accounted for, and there’s no fair price for a human life.
The IRA did nothing wrong.?
“reckless driving” if you’re a fascist
“attempted murder” if you’re less than 100% white
Hey. The car counts for something here.
Nah it’s terrorism for the not white people
Attempted murder if a cop is within 1/2 mile of the incident.
What if I run over a crowd of roided out military-larping cops with my F350?
Only one way to find out.
Well… at least he was actually driving. I would normally expect phrasing like “the SUV drove…” (independently and without any controlling driver as all cars involved in accidents do *cough*) nowadays.
“The SUV was driven…”
I hate that passive voice bullshit
That reminds me of how when an SUV runs over someone on a bike, it’s a “bicycle accident”.
Not rich or backing the rich. No war but class war.
Mug shot of Joseph R. Checklick Jr.
A rail thin white guy with a bowl cut and a huge shitty dragon tattoo on his arm, what a surprise.
Behold, the master race.
“We have Eminem at home.”
Isn’t this like every guy at the Unite The Right rally of 2017? Maybe crossbred with Michael Douglas in Falling Down
dicklick Jr I mean Jesus fucking christ
We don’t need the causal homophobic insults. That’s their weapon, not ours.
There is nothing insulting about licking dicks if that’s someone’s thing.
How could anyone be against no king protest?
Aren’t they saying yes kings if they are against it?
These boot lickers are getting out of hand
Yes. That’s exactly what they’re saying. Plus,“I hate liberals.”
Because American politics is just an us vs them game. No reasoning, no discussion, just the other bad.
Behold the result of 100 years of two-party politics run amok.
The whole Maga cult is centered around boot licking.
The “right wing” literally is the party of “preserving the norms and authority structures that gave power to the monarchy”.
“Licking boots” is a foundational tenant of right-wing ideology.
Don’t forget the “as long as the other person has it worse than me” rethoric.
Doesn’t matter if they suffer, as long as the people they dislike suffer even more.
Same reason they’re against Antifa. You would think being anti-fascist is an easy position to take, but here we are.
Not that I agree, but the logic is that the name is deceptive and they’re just against Trump I assume. Just like a “protect the children” act has nothing to do with protecting children. Names aren’t necessarily accurate.
The name isn’t deceptive. It is deliberate.
Yes, it is against Trump, but the reason is because Trump is behaving like a modern day, wannabe King/dictator.
I know. I’m just saying the name being deliberate doesn’t mean it’s accurate. In this case I would say it is, but “the patriot act” is also deliberately chosen, but it’s deceptive.
There should be recreational sugar boots or rather just comfort boots you can carry around with and lick, it should be normalized like breastfeeding.
I like that SUV is bold
