Friday’s vehicle ramming incident, perpetrated by ANTIFA, occurred on a bridge leading to a USCG Base in Oakland, CA.
ANTIFA rioters occupied the bridge most of the day. After the majority had departed, a U-Haul van tried to ram the gate while driving backward. Gate guards fired on the truck after repeated commands to stop were ignored.
The truck stopped and then drove away. It was found abandoned a block away. The driver, with at least one gunshot wound, was arrested. A pedestrian bystander suffered a minor injury (treated and released at a local hospital)
No USCG personnel were injured.
My comment: ANTIFA is mimicking Communist revolutionaries of decades past. The genetic connection is unmistakable. Criminal violence is now the preferred “working tool” of the left, fully supported (at arm’s length) by Democrat politicians.
ANTIFA continues to show its hand. Friday’s attack may have been just a “test run.” Leftist political violence is obviously not limited to knives and guns.
Such vehicle-ramming attacks are hard to terminate. Small-arms fire is not effective in bringing a moving vehicle to an abrupt stop. Shooting the vehicle’s tires, even shooting the driver, will not alter the vehicle’s trajectory, nor speed (at least in the short term).
Cones, gates, fences, curbs, signs, painted lines, even building walls are merely “symbolic” barriers. None represent any genuine ability to stop moving vehicles.
The rest of us need to start thinking about boulders and other kinds of bona-fide vehicle barriers, not just chain-link fences!
In proper context, Democrat politicians who tolerate, indeed support, this kind of violence (even tacitly) are liars and con-men!
/John
