Again with the motherfucking passive voice! Yet again, car violence gets minimized by the piece of shit headline writers.
No, strikers were not "hit by vehicle," you sniveling sorry excuse for a "journalist!" A driver propelled his two-ton piece of heavy machinery into them. Quit minimizing the perpetrator's agency just because he used a car as his attempted-murder weapon!
I am sick and tired of this car-supremacist propaganda.
Don't forget that we have 8 hour workdays, weekends off, payed time off and other benefits all thanks to union efforts. All of them we take granted for. They were not granted because of the kindness of employers.
I don’t condone running people over but blocking an exit is not ok either. I get the point. By blocking the exit they can’t be ignored, but what if someone has a medical or family emergency and needs to get out? That said, the driver was probably in the wrong here. They could have called the police instead, but it also wouldn’t have happened if the protesters weren’t blocking the exit.
"“It was uncalled for,” Dawes said. “These people are out here, you know these are my membership, and they’re out here doing a peaceful, legal demonstration."
No, not if they are impeding traffic.
Should they have been hit, no. They also shouldn't be blocking an entry/exit area.
I support what they are doing, but blocking an area like that could cause them more issues. Hopefully not, but the world tends to cater to the wealthy, not the normal working class.
Edit: Apparently nobody here ever learned to look both ways when crossing the street and somehow seem to think that pedestrians always have the right of way and can just stand anywhere they want. Y'all need to go back to elementary school or something. Regardless of the fact that they weren't standing in the middle of the interstate, it doesn't matter. They shouldn't have been standing in the damn street and the asshole that hit them should be in jail.