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2021-10-01 Fifth Column
White man who plowed into crowd of BLM protesters, leaving one with with two broken legs and a brain bleed, and then joked about it on Facebook will NOT face charges after grand jury rules there's not enough evidence!
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Jurors refused to charge Jared Benjamin Lafer for running over a white BLM protester, Jonathan Bowers, in September 2020

  • Lafer was originally charged for aggravated assault, a Class C felony, before it was changed to a reckless aggravated assault, a class D felony in May

  • Footage shows Bowers being hit and run over in Johnson City, Tennessee

  • Lafer is seen heading straight at the protester without breaking, knocking him to the ground before driving over him and leaving the scene

  • By the time of his arrest, Lafer had joke about the incident on Facebook

  • Lafer, released on $20,000 bond, is a real estate agent from North Carolina

  • His attorney said 'his wife and his three young kids' were all in the car with him
Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top
 File under: Antifa/BLM 

#1 Warms the cockles o' me heart.
Love a story with a happy ending, I do
Posted by Burn Loot Murder 2021-10-01 01:56||   2021-10-01 01:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't mess with Tennessee?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-10-01 01:59||   2021-10-01 01:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Good thing for him the protester wasn't a POC. Different outcome.
Posted by Warthog 2021-10-01 05:43||   2021-10-01 05:43|| Front Page Top

#4 The simple logic down here this neck of the woods.

If you are acting like a mob of Rabid Animals in the streets looting, rioting, setting fires, and assaulting persons and vehicles carrying defenseless persons, and/or families?

-----> DO NOT <-----
expect to be treated humanly.

Note: While small cars loose traction due the number of bodies stuck under them. 4x4's have better traction.☺
Posted by NN2N1 2021-10-01 06:54||   2021-10-01 06:54|| Front Page Top

#5 points: he didnt plow into the crowd, he started from a stop, hitting a bunch of people who were blocking the car and threatening him; who cares what color he is.
Posted by Retard Strength 2021-10-01 07:08||   2021-10-01 07:08|| Front Page Top

#6 OBTW:
Also noted the racially charged and misdirecting Headline and story line.

A suggested honest Headline:
Jury agrees, Father protected family from BLM Looting/Rioters.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-10-01 07:09||   2021-10-01 07:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Think of this as the Red Neck version of the OJ verdict.
If he had killed/disabled the guy, a different verdict.
Posted by Sonny Black 2021-10-01 08:57||   2021-10-01 08:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Let the civil suits begin.
Posted by ed in texas 2021-10-01 09:38||   2021-10-01 09:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Moral: You don't wanna be a speed bump, get out of the road
Posted by Frank G 2021-10-01 09:57||   2021-10-01 09:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Move over, St Pancake. Got company
Posted by Burn Loot Murder 2021-10-01 09:59||   2021-10-01 09:59|| Front Page Top

#11 and the pendulum swings.....
Posted by Mercutio 2021-10-01 10:08||   2021-10-01 10:08|| Front Page Top

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