‘Traumatized’ AWFL Says She Was Hit by Car at Anti-ICE Protest—Asked Police for Help, Got a Citation Instead
“I’m very, very upset because I want to press criminal charges against this person who hit me and the cops just handed me a f***ing citation saying that it’s my fault.”
It seems to me there’s been a noticeable uptick in anti-ICE protestors getting hit by cars lately. Apparently, drivers don’t particularly like it when demonstrators try to physically block their path and disrupt their day.
In the video below, Jennifer Tiernan — a woman who vaguely resembles Medusa, complete with snakes for hair — shares what happened after she tried to block a car at a “No Kings” protest in Catskill, New York, last Saturday. Tiernan claims to be “traumatized” by the treatment she received from both the police and the driver of the vehicle she attempted to stop.
“Hi. My name is Jennifer Tiernan. And on Saturday after leaving the “No Kings” protest, I was struck and injured by a motor vehicle,” she says. “The cops here in Catskill, New York, took several days to get an accident report together. … They never interviewed me.”
She continues, “I’ve been very traumatized by this event. And now, in order to retraumatize me, the cops here in Catskill are telling me that it’s my fault that I put my human body in the street to be hit by a motor vehicle.”
Well, it is her fault.
“The people in the motor vehicle actually got out and started screaming in my face — after they had struck me,” Tiernan said.
I don’t blame them.
Next, she claims to have spent the rest of the day in the hospital undergoing various CT scans and x-rays. Sounding like a petulant toddler, she complains, “They never came to check on me. They never asked me any questions. They never did anything.” Who might “they” be? The driver of the vehicle? The police?
“And now, they’re giving me a citation for being in the road. So, honestly, I think that’s a bunch of crap and I’m very, very upset because I want to press criminal charges against this person who hit me and the cops just handed me a f***ing citation saying that it’s my fault.”
Good luck with that.
Anti-ICE rioter is OUTRAGED after police “didn’t care” when she got hit by a car at a protest..
(She was rioting in the street btw) 💀💀 pic.twitter.com/XE1vd92qix
— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) June 22, 2025
Good thing Tiernan didn’t try this in Florida where authorities — and likely drivers as well — would be even less sympathetic to a protestor wasting their time.
In a recent episode of The Rubin Report, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) told podcast host Dave Rubin, “If you’re driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety, and so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that’s their fault for impinging on you.
He said, “You don’t have to sit there and just be a sitting duck and let the mob grab you out of your car and drag you through the streets.”
“You have a right to defend yourself in Florida,” he added.
If Tiernan were looking to social media users for empathy, she certainly didn’t find it.
I don’t blame the police for not caring that she was rioting in the street and likely a threatened driver acted in self defense and hit her. I don’t care either. FAFO. Also, I am so tired of people overusing the term “traumatized.”
— SusanAtl (@shsatlga) June 22, 2025
Can she not figure out that they’ve had better more important things to do than worry about her standing in front of a car? What happened to her was her own fault. It’s not a crime, it’s stupidity.
— Lorrie Ann 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇸 (@LorrieAnn25) June 22, 2025
When you stand in front of traffic, do not be surprized if you are turned into a speed bump.
If you posted this to gain sympathy, then you failed spectacularly.🤡— WhiteCorrela (@WhiteCorrela) June 22, 2025
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My “give a damn” meter for these people is permanently broken.
Maybe, just maybe… once these sad caricatures of people figure out that there are consequences for stopping traffic by placing their “human bodies” in front of moving vehicles, they’ll stop doing it.
Does this fall under FAFO? A lot of stuff falls under that. More please.
Why yes, yes it does. I think these people, previously stuck at the FA phase, have now moved on to the FO phase.
Physics is hard!
So are vehicles.
Especially big old trucks and SUVs….
Even more so when we still had chrome bumpers.
‘The Rule of Gross Tonnage’ has been misunderstood by protestors for decades.
Momentum is no longer taught in public schools, either.
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o40fwZgSFPI
To enhance their learning experience, after the first bump lay on the brakes. Does this mean that a snow plow can be used to clear a path?
Now, If someone declaims, “I was hit by a car!”
My response is: “Why were you in the road?”
That is how we were raised. If we get hit by a car, it is our fault for being in a place where a car could hit us. Her two basic, likely intractable problems, are living in a bubble where her views are constantly being reinforced, and having the permanent victim mentality.
I see people like her in Portland all the time and it takes a lot of restraint to not ask “did they arrest the person who did that to you?” The real issue isn’t the car accident, it is the train wreck that sums up her life to date. We need a broader definition of Munchaussen’s which includes a wider spectrum of attention seeking behaviors outside of basic medical issues. I am fairly certain that deep in her mind there is a thought process that goes “if I get hit by a car then people will pay attention to me.”
“did they arrest the person who did that to you?”
A variation on “Whoever told you that looks good on you is NOT your friend”?
“if I get hit by a car then people will pay attention to me.”
Probably a combination of aspiring martyrdom and “How dare you!”
“The real issue isn’t the car accident, it is the train wreck that sums up her life to date.”
Speaking of which, it’s an abuse of language to refer to this person as an AWFL.
The A stands for affluent… not antagonistic.
This woman evidently can’t afford a bottle of Herbal Essence.
I finally figured out what the “four wheel drive, low range” on my truck was for…
Outstanding!
My off-road Taco has a ‘crawl mode’ good for rock hopping and going up extremely steep hills. I think it would work well on rioters.
Especially large piles. Ground clearance is a must to avoid splatter.
My F150 4wd has 4Lo and a cowcatcher with a winch. Pretty sure I could mosey out of a crowd of rioters if I had to
Now you figure it out? Lol
No greater truth: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!
She looks stupid ugly, I bet she has to wait for the las call in bars to pick up anybody.
Sideshow Bob on the Simpsons did the lying in the street schtick already. She needs some new material.
This is horrible!
If she looks like this after the accident, she should sue for BILLIONS!
What a sad state of affairs this nation is in if a driver can assault a person and leave them as disfigured as this woman clearly is.
And just think of the mental damage he must have done!
“Doctor, after my surgery will I be able to play the piano?”
“I don’t see why not.”
“Cool. I never could play before.”
1,000 upvotes for your sense of humor.
I can learn to appreciate you.
Milhouse: when I had to get cancer taken out of my hand in ’22, I asked the doc if I’d be able to play piano. His reply was: that was the oldest joke in the world. I replied that in fact I was a piano student and really DID want to know.
Turns out that after each of the three surgeries he wanted me to try playing as soon as I felt up to it so we could keep the circulation going.
I don’t have the link ready at hand, but my case was considered worthy of a write-up in one of the medical magazines.
Found it.
Be careful for what you wish for, Mr. Bowman. As soon as I get past camera fright I will be posting a video or two on YouTube to “cure” the friends and internet acquaintances that want to hear me play.
You’re not that far. Let’s jam.
My piano teacher said that he had to seek out THE orthopedic surgeon that specializes in pianists. She warned him that piano players should not go to any old sawbone.
I started after I retired; I will never be any good. I play for the mental exercise and for that occasional victory over that two or three measure bit that has defeated me for weeks.
One of my wife’s employee’s was just diagnosed with finger cancer and has to get surgery. I’d never heard of such a thing.
I was at a portland bottledrop where a car backed into another one, and both looked better after the encounter.
The vehicles or the motorists?
There is no hiding those crazy eyes behind ironic glasses. Even her 12 cats are afraid of her
I recognized her kind immediately, as soon as she said, “.Hi… my name is Jennifer Tiernan…” with the attitude at the end of every sentence screaming, “I’m entitled and I’m itching to kick your ass.”
A genuine crackpot. There are legions of them out and about since we closed the state hospitals.
You don’t like women with chest tattoos? To each his own.
I love tattoos on some women. It’s the “chest” that appears to end around the pelvic area that has me spooked.
Most of the disfigurement this…thing…is showing is mental, not physical. Think she looks odd externally? What do you think it look like under the hood?
Fortunately, Darwin was right.
Perhaps cow-catchers for cars should become a thing
or maybe there should be an ‘airbag off’ switch when driving near protesters
Or in her case, an old-bag switch.
Won’t work if the AWFL is horizontal.
More than one anti-war or anti-nuke protestor trying to stop a train has FAFO’ed – if they’re lucky they only lose their legs. A train is like a large ship – even if you TRY to stop it usually takes too much time and distance to successfully do so.
That’s even not assuming the train isn’t carrying a classified military cargo and has authority NOT to stop for security reasons. And now Jack and Jill car-blocking protestors and or carjackers have gone to this particular metaphorical well so often that in many jurisdictions the authorities are saying “Enuf!” and as long as you aren’t Mad Maxing it – and they are – they can keep going instead of having to stop and render themselves vulnerable to the mercy of their blockers.
That actually happened in the 1970s (maybe 80s.) Anti nuke protestor laid his legs across the train tracks. Trains don’t stop on a dime. Lost them both.
If you are impeding someone who wants to leave a place, that is called kidnapping. She’s lucky she only got a citation.
Trains have the mass and braking of a large ship AND they have razor blades on their wheels.
Dad was an engineer for a number of years. One winter his train hit a school bus, luckily empty except for one terrified driver who got pushed broadside down the tracks almost a mile before he could get it stopped. Folks, The Big Momentum is a thing.
In my hometown there was a school bus that got clipped by an express commuter train. Seven kids died, which was a tragedy especially for a small town like ours.
A long time ago I read about a woman whose husband was a train driver in, I think, France. She was taken to task for voicing the opinion that folks wanting to take their own lives by stepping in front of a moving train were selfish because of what such an incident did to the well-being of the train driver.
Even back then, in my left-leaning perspective, I felt she was absolutely right.
Isn’t that exactly how interventionists dissuade suicides?
“Think of how guilty all your friends will feel!”
Without the steering capability
Well obviously we have to repeal those pesky Newton’s laws of motion. They spoil everything.
Newton was a white male, so…
Even the tiny little reptilian brain of the average protester recognizes that trying to stop a train with your body is going to end in death. They need to view streets and cars the same way.
If the AWFL is horizontal I’ve got two words: snow plow
“Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can’t help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”
Need to add an “S” to “AWFL”.
Already covered by the L.
Are the nose rings issued to them as part of the uniform, or do they have to go out and get them themselves.
It took me a while to figure that out, but it finally occurred to me that it makes it much easier for them to be lead around like farm animals.
And while I was writing that last sentence (I almost wrote “hit me” instead of “occurred to me”) this take on a common meme…hit me:
“I was standing there in the road at a protest, wondering why everyone keeps saying it’s a bad idea to stand in front of a car…then it hit me…”
“to be lead”
of course should have been “to be led”.
I’m not illiterate, it was a typo.
Proofreading is your friend.
Weirdly, “lead” as past tense of “lead” has come to be really popular in the last several years. I hate it.
It is also annoying to me that the AP “stylebook” requires the use of “pleaded” instead of “pled” when dealing with past tense in legal issues. But they aren’t consistent. When someone runs from police, the AP says they “fled”. Shouldn’t that be “fleeded”?
Pleaded, fleeded. Potato, patahto. Just be consistent, AP.
I personally prefer “fleeded”. It would be hilarious.
A flea and a fly
A flea and a fly
Flew up in a flue.
Said the flea, “Let us fly!”
Said the fly, “Let us flee!”
So they flew through
A flaw in the flue.
Ogden Nash
Probably autocorrupt’s fault, it drives me nuts what it decides I meant to write.
I hadn’t even noticed the nose, I was staring in horrified fascination at her hair. White people hair is totally the wrong texture for dreads; I have *never* seen good-looking dreads on a white person.
“I was staring in horrified fascination at her hair.”
I was told, by all the best kinds of people, that what this white chick did with her hair was “cultural appropriation.”
I guess that’s true only when conservatives do such things.
She MEANT to do that to her hair?
I thought it was a result of the accident.
Maybe she failed at being an electrician’s apprentice… didn’t understand what “live” meant…
Intersectionality took on a new meaning for her.
The best I can figure is that the nose ring is either there to distract from other less attractive features, or it is a rank insignia to indicate that you have reached a certain level of dedication to the cause, or gullibility.
Reminds me of the Vince Vaugnn comment about tramp stamps in “Wedding Crashers.” Regardless of the design, the message it sends is “I have low self-esteem and am easy.”
She has the NASCAR tack configuration — one for go straight, the other for go left.
was there any damage to the car?
Totaled!
A grease spot left on the hood I would imagine.
Left by the patchouli oil.
She’s still upset because she narrowly lost to Karine Jean-Pierre for the position of Biden White House Press Secretary.
Missed it by a hair.
I guess that her mother never told her not to play in traffic
Or, maybe she was AWFL as a kid and her mother did tell her to play in traffic!
Reginald Denny has entered the chat.
Yup. During the 1992 L.A. riots, Reginald taught me to never stop for a mob blocking the street. NEVER.
No (Rodney) Kings….
Every truck driver remembers that. Every boss I’ve had since has told me to never stop the truck. Drop it in 2cd or third, lay on the horn and keep moving till clear.
Think of it as evolution in action.
Larry Niven would be proud.
For the unlettered among us…
“Oath of Fealty”, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, 1981
In order for evolution to work, the mutant must breed.
Evolution is “survival of the fittest.” A component of that concept is that the unfit are weeded out before they are able to breed.
You wrote:
“Apparently, drivers don’t particularly like it when demonstrators try to physically block their path and disrupt their day.”
Nobody with a brain really cares about having their path blocked and having their day disrupted by mentally disturbed morons.
What we’re worried about is having our car blocked in by hysterical mobs, being attacked inside our vehicles as we are trapped, then being pulled from the vehicle and being beaten to death by a mob. This is pretty much the DEFINITION of “immediate danger of death or grievous bodily injury”, and can be responded with by potentially lethal force. This can include the use of a firearm to shoot someone who has broken a window and is attempting to either hijack your vehicle, or pull you from the vehicle to commit mayhem and/or murder. It definitely includes the use of the vehicle to flee the scene of your potential murder.
While hitting them and knocking them down as you make an attempt to run away is nice, it’s considered to be an aggressive move (NOT legally defensible) to carefully back up and run over them a second and third time (no matter how satisfying), so please don’t do that. Just leave, then file a criminal complaint. Win the race to the courthouse.
No, I’m also perturbed by the inconvenience. And particularly irritated by the illegal detention.
Yet wasn’t a person in exactly this situation (during the BLM riots) prosecuted for shooting an armed man who was part of a mob surrounding his (the driver’s) car?
Not saying you’re wrong, just pointing out that in liberal jurisdictions they don’t see these situations that same way as might a sane person.
This is why I stay away from liberal jurisdictions.
This is a Clark Griswold moment of not driving down a side street in East St Louis.
I choose not to be a victim twice. Once by ghetto criminals and once by the “Just-Us” system that prosecutes victims who defends themselves.
DuckDuckGo: daniel perry shooting blm austin
BLM riots and shooting: 2020
Sentenced to 25 years: 2023
Gov. Abbott pardoned Daniel Perry: 2024
Tread lightly Elizabeth. You may be defaming Medusa… 🙂
Not possible. She would have to have a reputation to besmirch. And I don’t think that’s possible with that hair.
Oh dear. I re-read and understand. And concur. (I read it first with the nickname for the woman, and there’s no way that woman could be defamed.) My apologies.
Yeah — Medusa started as a sympathetic figure, and her face was used to scare away evil spirits. Kinda like what “The Exorcist” did to Pazuzu, who was an ancient Mesopotamian protective spirit that prevented possession.
If you are on twitter, you saw this one…. it went viral over the weekend.
Check out KGW’s coverage… and check the comments for how deluded PDX is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Ikg4zLy74
only blmplo rioters get the preferred treatment
Stop playing in traffic, retard
Her use of the phrase “my human body” raises the intriguing question as to whether she believes she has ANOTHER body. A Furry Body? A non-binary, non-sapient body? A woman-goddess Gaia-linking ethereal body?
I will give the benefit of the doubt and say she also believes she has a spiritual one…or a furry as you pointed out.
It doesn’t get better than this.
(It can, actually, if that hospital sends her a bill for all those test)
Ax-ing a queschun. Did the hospital actually do an xray, MRI, and a CT Scan? .
It’s not like she was actually run over, like, um, with a, um, freight train, or like anything!
That imaging department is padding the books.
Channeling my departed mother, who, after having a brain scan in her late 80’s, asked the technicians: “Did you find one?”
True story.
She was a pistol.
I bet she reeks of patchouli.
Which covers up all kinds of nasty odors.
“who vaguely resembles Medusa”
Good one.
All the requisite gear. Tats, piercings, crazed look in the eyes.
I do wonder how her cats got along without her during those traumatized hours when she was in the hospital.
For me, the question is, “How much trouble would I get into for backing up and running over them several times?”
No, I would not do that. But, if you surround my car and even so much as touch it, you will find out how much of a weapon a Subaru Outback is.
Based on the scenario you offered up..a whole bunch of trouble. Driving forward to escape a mob surrounding the vehicle and possibly injuring a member of the mob as you try to get away …there you have a self defense claim. If you then stop, put the vehicle in reverse and drive over the member of the mob writhing on the street….that’s not self defense. Similar to delivering a coup de grace after an otherwise lawful, justified self defense shooting.
Well, there is a scenario where you might get away with both.
In the case of the coup de grace, you might get away with it if you have several aggressors and have to move in such a manner the down but not entirely out bad guy could re-present as a threat again, later.
In the case of the car, if you find your only viable exit is now behind you, you might get away with backing up over people who are now speed bumps.
Yes, they’re very narrow, unlikely instances. But, you might get away with it. Maybe. If your attorney is Samuel T. Cogley.
ISWYDT 🙂
unless you have dyslexia
Tony Soprano to Richie Aprile, “I told you to back off on Beansie.”
“I did. Then it put it in Drive.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WHxMFxVHgg
Travis said it best thirty-odd years ago:
Call someone who’ll listen and might give a damn
Maybe one of your sordid affairs
But don’t you come ’round here handin’ me none of your lines
Here’s a quarter, call someone who cares
Jo Dee Messina said it better. Linked above. 😀
Both of them in rotation? Played at full volume while protesting the protesters?
They’re sort of rocking the same hair style!
These are the same fools who paint pictures on streets and then get upset when there are tire tracks on them.
‘Medusa’ here is an obvious lawsuit troll. She *NEEDS* that ticket issued to the driver so it can be deemed the driver’s fault, and she can then sue for every penny the driver’s insurance covers and crawl into the driver’s pocketbook for a huge payoff. That’s why she went screaming off to the hospital emergency room for as many expensive tests as she could get (and is horribly disappointed that ‘scuffs and bruises’ don’t count.)
I’m sorry but I believe the driver of the car is seriously at fault. After hitting this …. person …. they should have backed over her and then driven over once again. Maybe repeat these sequence a few dozen times. This would have aided this … person … in the pursuit of justice.
Good description! White hair doesn’t make good dreadlocks, it always looks matted and dirty.
I’m sure there are a few white folks out there with hair the right texture, but they are few, and this lady is *not* one of them.
This was meant as a reply to Olinser below. Dang phone.
Two down clicks! I’m winning!!!
I upvoted above to get you closer to balance.
Now your even. Am I the worst troll ever or what
Is Medusa a biologist? If not, then how does {personal pronoun} know {personal pronoun} is a human being.
If you took a dog with hair like that to a groomer they’d tell you it was a hopeless cause and impossible to fix and the only solution would be a clean buzz shave.
I thought it was illegal to shave a dog’s ass!
They’d probably do it as a matter of course to make sure there are no fleas, ticks, or lice.
Thank you. That video is a classic! It made my day. I will observe a moment of silence, as I sip my Bourbon, and then break out in a laugh.
Well bullring, you violated federal law. Did you think you were up for the Noble?
You misspelled “Darwin Award.”
Wife has over 100 truckdrivers under her. When the BLM riots started it became a thing to block roads. She made it crystal clear to all of them to never let a mob in the road stop their truck. Her drivers took it to heart and drove through several protests. Even those cranks weren’t stupid enough to stand in front of a semi that obviously was not down for the struggle.
Yikes! Ms. Tiernan would be a great burka model.
After a day of cat scans on her head no brains were detected.
Just lots and lots of cats.
Hey JR. Tell your idiot wife to stop playing in traffic.
Tie a pork chop around her neck instead, and maybe the dog will play with her.
“I’m very, very upset because I want…”
The sad song of entitled kids, and idiot leftists.”
“after leaving the “No Kings” protest, I was struck and injured by a motor vehicle,” she says.
After? After? Communists hate capitalism, but even more, they hate truth, because it spoils their narrative.
“X-rays, MRIs, and CAT scans on my pelvis and my head.”
But she got a bargain rate given that they had to take only one of each,
You confused snakes with the greasy lice infested curls of the unwashed
She should sue her mother for not teaching her that it was a bad idea to play in the streets!
Sorry, the streets are for vehicles, not worthless people who don’t add anything to society but play the victim incessantly