Rioters point weapons at motorist in Indy

[1nderbeard]

What's the INGOer reading this gonna do if confronted with a human blocked roadway and terrorists pointing guns at them?

I'd start by avoiding downtown. I'd continue to avoiding surface streets. Finally I'd look down the road to avoid problem areas. If there were a gun wielding idiot in front of the truck I'd back up and turn around ASAP. If I were surrounded by weapon wielding thugs I'd run over from the front or the back anyone preventing me from leaving and I wouldn't stop until out of range.
You have to assume these days everything you do is recorded and shown at a trial. You can't run over people unless you have no other option, or it's in an effort to escape bodily injury.

 

[chipbennett]

So? You elect people who do things in your name all the time.

That's is how a republic works.

Correct. A republic adheres to the Rule of Law.

Speaking of which, this one is interesting.

Sec. 431-107. - Throwing or discharging liquids on public ways.







(a)
No person shall throw or discharge, or permit the discharge or drainage from any building or lot, upon any street or public place in the city, any water, acids, chemicals or other fluid or liquid substance, and allow it to remain without promptly removing it, in such quantity or manner as to affect injuriously the surface of the street or sidewalk or so as to make the use thereof inconvenient or unsafe for travel.

I bet, if I looked long enough, I could find a related state statute regarding painting/defacing public roadways.

 

[chipbennett]

According to this article they approved the mural in July.
https://www.theindychannel.com/news...matter-mural-in-downtown-indianapolis-defaced

Constitutionally, what the city council implicitly approved, by explicitly approving the BLM "mural" that defaces public property, is every other form of political statement expressed by similarly defacing public property. Allowing a "Black Lives Matter" political statement that defaces a public roadway while prohibiting any other political statement that defaces a public roadway (particularly, a political statement that counters the explicitly approved political statement - and that would include defacing the "approved" defacement) would be unquestionably unconstitutional.

Therein lies the danger in the city council approving defacement of a public roadway for a political statement. Maybe don't do that, and instead encourage expression of political statements using other means that don't require city council approval.

 

[chipbennett]

Your mindset appears to revolve around "we the people didnt vote for it, so it is vandalism.". But those with the power to grant permission *DID* vote to approve it. And it was well within the boundaries of everything, so your premise of vandalism is wrong.


And if you really want to get down to brass tacks, what does this have to do with you? Its Indianapolis and you arent here to have a say anyway. You dont live here, dont pay local taxes, etc. so its not even "your" street!

Did the city council vote to change the controlling statutes? If not, their action does not change the nature of the act as constituting vandalism; it merely becomes vandalism done with the imprimatur of the city council.

The city council still exists under the Rule of Law. If the city council voted to prohibit the carry of firearms within the Indianapolis city limits, would you hold a similar perspective of the authority of their vote?

 

[nonobaddog]

This could be a safety issue too. Paint on a roadway gets slippery as snot when it is wet. Vehicles won't be able to stop as fast or swerve to avoid a bad outcome. Think of the children.

 

[chipbennett]

This could be a safety issue too. Paint on a roadway gets slippery as snot when it is wet. Vehicles won't be able to stop as fast or swerve to avoid a bad outcome. Think of the children.

The exact purpose of the municipal code I cited/quoted above. I am unaware that the city council voted to rescind that particular code.

 

[PistolBob]

Law and order is out the window now. If you want to drive in a major city and "have your way" then bring your own firepower and lots of it so that others will stand down.
It sounds gangster/thuggish/not right but that appears the way things are going now in the USA
It's not a new thing, well for america it is, but it's been around his mankind.

No. This is not the way it is going in the USA. Just cities run by socialist Marxist commie loving local government elected by hand out loving, fatherless families that thrive on the chaos. This is NOT America. You sir, are wrong.

 

[PistolBob]

No, but walmart shareholders dont vote on every little decision management makes either.

Indy = Walmart....

I get it now.

 

[asevans]

So fox 59 ran with the story Sunday morning. it was a short story.

they actually had the video blurred out so you couldn’t identify the gun toting BLMers. Pathetic.

I have no confidence in news media anymore.

AA

 

[Bollorollo]

Jonathan Howe is going around trying to use the leftist smear tactic of calling people who oppose him and his propaganda as racists. Plus the the local leftist groips in Indianapolis are calling Tony Katz a white Supremacist .. A Jewish man lol.. The idiots are lost in a completely different world as the reast of us live in.. Crazy.. https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1362499123

 

[GIJEW]

I wonder if they can also connect the headlight washers to a can of bear spray as well? (and rotate them 180* of course)

that'll only work if you're parked, otherwise you'll drive into your cloud of OC

 

[Jaybird1980]

I wonder if they can also connect the headlight washers to a can of bear spray as well? (and rotate them 180* of course)

Damn, your car has HEADLIGHT WASHERS.
You are livin the good life.

 

[Kdf101]

It used to be that protesters blocking roads and interfering with “interstate commerce” was a no no. Whatever happened to that?

 

[foszoe]

My 2006 Honda Accord EX V-6 Hybrid had all the bells and whistles for a honda new in 2006 and it didn't have those.

My 2016 Ford XLT has more stuff on it than my Honda now...Sometimes I wish my Honda would break so I can get a new car, but with only 371000 miles on it, I probably have another 5, 6 years left.

Damn, your car has HEADLIGHT WASHERS.
You are livin the good life.

 

[nonobaddog]

Some Mercedes cars have headlight washers and little wipers too.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Some Mercedes cars have headlight washers and little wipers too.

Mine doesnt have them, but if I could hook them up to bear spray, I just might have them added LOL

 

[nonobaddog]

Some Volvos, Saabs and BMWs also.

 

[ashby koss]

This could be useful.
jonathan Howe
dump city records owner- indianapolis

https://twitter.com/hlmorrison64/status/1292818227437813761?s=21

 

[KittySlayer]

Watched the video. What parent takes their young child to this mess and escorts them by the hand into the frey?

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Watched the video. What parent takes their young child to this mess and escorts them by the hand into the frey?

Parents that should have their children removed from their custody IMHO.