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.
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.
And finally …
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