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Jared Benjamin Lafer, who last September drove his SUV through a tiny assemblage of Black Lives Matter protesters in Johnson City, Tennessee, and then sped away leaving behind a man with a concussion, brain bleed, and two broken legs will face no charges.
On Monday, a Tennessee grand jury returned a no true bill a declaration by jurors that there was not enough evidence to indict the 27-year-old even after a judge had reduced the charges against him from aggravated assault, a Class C felony, to reckless aggravated assault, a Class D felony. Among the materials that apparently left the grand jurors unmoved was cellphone video documenting Lafer rolling over the protester with his truck, narrowly missing the protesters dog, and almost striking a second person who jumped out of the cars unswerving path before it accelerated away from the scene.
The same footage made the rounds on social media last year as Tennessee police conducted a two-day manhunt for the hit-and-run driver, who they identified as Lafer after witnesses identified his out-of-state licence plate number. Lafer never returned to the scene to check on his victim, but instead drove to his home state of North Carolina, hired a lawyer to talk with the cops on the case, and turned himself in two days after committing the crime.
By the time of the arrest, Lafers earlier social media posts joking about running over protesters had been scrubbed from the internet, preserved only in screengrabs captured by a local progressive news site.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-ran-over-black-lives-matter-protestersbut-apparently-thats-not-a-crime
iemanja
(53,111 posts)Showing how corrupt those people are.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Prosecutor sent it grand jury?
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,678 posts)He is a great person
owning the libs.....since never
rurallib
(62,477 posts)Even if there are no criminal charges? That Lafer should at least pay for the damage to that man's life.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Girard442
(6,087 posts)It's not even past.
3Hotdogs
(12,456 posts)sakabatou
(42,198 posts)yardwork
(61,748 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Amazing in a bad way but not shocking in a place like Tennessee, hard to find a jury free of racist types.
This Jerk needs to face some kind of Justice maybe from the Feds?
So disturbing and ridiculous.