Current Events > Guy Who Drove Into The GOP Voter Tent- "Someone had to take a stand"

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. The man who is accused of deliberately driving his van into a tent where voters were being registered by local Republicans told the Jacksonville Sheriffs Office his disapproval of President Donald Trump was a motivating factor, according to an unredacted arrest report obtained by News4Jax.

Gregory Timm, 27, was arrested hours after police said his van plowed through the tent, narrowly missing volunteers who were set up the parking lot of a Walmart Superstore at the corner of Atlantic and Kernan boulevards about 3:50 p.m. on Saturday. Hes accused of two counts of aggravated assault on a person over 65 years old, criminal mischief and driving without a license.

According to JSO investigators who tracked him down, Timm admitted to purposefully driving into the tent because someone had to take a stand.
Timm told investigators he saw the registration tent after he went to pick up food and cigarettes at Walmart, according to JSO.
He then showed investigators a video he recorded while driving towards the tent, according to JSO, but the video cut out before he hit the tent. According to the report, Timm said he was upset that the video ended before the good part.

Timm said he waited until there were no people in front of the tent before he ran it over although, JSO investigators noted in the report, the video showed people still standing there.
Witnesses said he flipped off the people near the tent before driving away.
The suspect told investigators he does not like President Trump and that was part of the reason he wanted to run over the tent, according to the arrest report.
While JSO didnt immediately say if the action was politically motivated, the incident was quickly condemned as a political attack by both Republican and Democratic leaders in Jacksonville, Floridas two U.S. Senators, and even President Donald Trump.

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it's not going to be enough to get the radioactive president out of the presidential office.
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imagine if a Trump supporter did this to Democrats

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Kazi1212 posted...

imagine if a Trump supporter did this to Democrats

You and all the usual Trump trolls would be downplaying it

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Sounding more and more like a false flag

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Kazi1212 posted...

imagine if a Trump supporter did this to Democrats

It will probably get more media coverage.

iPhone_7 posted...

Kazi1212 posted...

imagine if a Trump supporter did this to Democrats

You and all the usual Trump trolls would be downplaying it

I don't think so. Did anyone downplay Charlottesville?
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TheRealDill2015 posted...

I don't think so. Did anyone downplay Charlottesville?

You did

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Kazi1212 posted...

imagine if a Trump supporter did this to Democrats

That already happened, and it killed someone.

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TheRealDill2015 posted...

I don't think so. Did anyone downplay Charlottesville?

Yes

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I was about to express my surprise but then I read the story and saw that no one got killed. Leftie kill count still at 0, I'm starting to think it might just be a law of the universe

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Attempted murder on Reps in Jacksonville... Nothing about that makes sense or would change anything...

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Evening_Dragon posted...

That already happened, and it killed someone.

Tbf I wouldn't exactly call antifascists in general Democrats

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Kazi1212 posted...

imagine if a Trump supporter did this to Democrats

They already did at Charlottesville. But you already knew that.

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Irony posted...

TheRealDill2015 posted...

I don't think so. Did anyone downplay Charlottesville?

You did

I said the sentencing for the crime was excessive. That doesn't downplay the act.
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I guess this is what happens when the President isn't held accountable for anything.

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Evening_Dragon posted...

That already happened, and it killed someone.

It was more than once...

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TheRealDill2015 posted...

I said the sentencing for the crime was excessive. That doesn't downplay the act.

"Why was my post modded this is so unfair"

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Florida, yet again. Can we do like what they did in whatever cartoon it was, I forget right now, and just cut Florida off from the mainland U.S. and just let it float out to sea?

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He has mental problems but, he obviously knew what he was doing and should be charged with attempted murder.
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This looks blatantly like someone so disturbed trying to make Democrats look bad. Very disturbing his actions, lock him up.

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Gamerguymass posted...

Florida, yet again. Can we do like what they did in whatever cartoon it was, I forget right now, and just cut Florida off from the mainland U.S. and just let it float out to sea?

Bruh, whatever cartoon? Bug Bunny? Come on dawg

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"I don't like these guys, the only solution is to kill them!"

Anyone who thinks that is clearly not right in the head.

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Kazi1212 posted...

imagine if a Trump supporter did this to Democrats

That person would be a scumbag, just like this person is a scumbag. What's your point?
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Laserion posted...

That person would be a scumbag, just like this person is a scumbag. What's your point?

I think hes implying there would be a lot of frothing at the mouth by outraged members here. Instead, you see them either deflecting or handwaving this attack.

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TheRealDill2015 posted...

I said the sentencing for the crime was excessive. That doesn't downplay the act.

If a sentence is too much for an act, how does that not downplay the severity of the act?

And to your original question - yes, people on here said Hyer probably had a heart attack and/or threw herself onto the car.
People on Stormfront downplayed it even more

Lorenzo_2003 posted...

I think hes implying there would be a lot of frothing at the mouth by outraged members here. Instead, you see them either deflecting or handwaving this attack.

Yeah, I did see that post implying like "oh 0 deaths is nothing to worry about." Have no idea if that was supposed to be a joke or not, though.

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BakonBitz posted...

Yeah, I did see that post implying like "oh 0 deaths is nothing to worry about." Have no idea if that was supposed to be a joke or not, though.

all you need is to look at post #2 to see people downplaying and making a mockery of this already

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The right instigating domestic terrorism is par for the course

For the past 16+ years, radical right-wing conservative groups have been a larger threat per the FBI than any other domestic group. Moreover, radical right-wingers have killed far more people in the U.S. since Trump's election than any foreigner or Muslim.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/14/fbi-and-dhs-warned-of-growing-threat-from-white-supremacists-months-ago/
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/2/16396612/las-vegas-mass-shooting-terrorism-islam

From Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/08/17/are-antifa-and-the-alt-right-equally-violent/
Over the past decade, extremists of every stripe have killed 372 Americans. 74 percent of those killings were committed by right wing extremists. Only 2 percent of those deaths were at the hands of left wing extremists. Mayo told us:
"I dont want to give moral equivalence to the two sides because one side is fighting against white supremacy. On the Antifa side, theyve never murdered anyone but there have been many murders done by white supremacists, so we have to be concerned about that movement."

These people are amped up by Trump. When Trump tells them to commit violence either directly at his rallies or indirectly, eventually, someone will do it (This is called Stochastic Terrorism when it's indirect).

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-incitement-violence/
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/stochastic-terrorism

The American Right hankers for a civil war: a history in four videos
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/25/1837424/-The-American-Right-hankers-for-a-civil-war-a-history-in-four-videos

^And you know what? Trying to commit domestic terrorism on the right is the exact wrong thing to do. Doing it and praising such an act, is fueling the right's desire to want this "civil war" even more.

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Kazi1212 posted...

imagine if a Trump supporter did this to Democrats

You flatout saying youre a troll doesnt make this post any less stupid

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Rexdragon125 posted...

For the past 16+ years, radical right-wing conservative groups have been a larger threat per the FBI than any other domestic group. Moreover, radical right-wingers have killed far more people in the U.S. since Trump's election than any foreigner or Muslim.

The FBI never determined a motive for the Las Vegas shooter.

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Ruvan22 posted...

TheRealDill2015 posted...

I said the sentencing for the crime was excessive. That doesn't downplay the act.

If a sentence is too much for an act, how does that not downplay the severity of the act?

I believe we should put a greater focus on rehabilitation efforts rather than punishment. As a result, I'm going to see most sentences as being excessive. This does not mean that I have a lesser opinion of the crimes themselves.
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thoughts and prayers

Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

I was about to express my surprise but then I read the story and saw that no one got killed. Leftie kill count still at 0, I'm starting to think it might just be a law of the universe

Luckily in this case the left are bad at this thing.

Too bad the right aren't :(

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Unsugarized_Foo posted...

Bruh, whatever cartoon? Bug Bunny? Come on dawg

I thought it was Looney Tunes but I wasn't 100% sure about it. I couldn't remember if they had done something like that on The Simpsons or Family Guy that I was thinking of.

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TheRealDill2015 posted...

I believe we should put a greater focus on rehabilitation efforts rather than punishment. As a result, I'm going to see most sentences as being excessive. This does not mean that I have a lesser opinion of the crimes themselves.

Ok, so you agree that people on this very board DID downplay the violence/murder at Charlottesville?