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an individual person is kind, caring and smart... when you get couple dozen of kind, caring and smart individuals, somehow you end up up with vicious, careless and stupid mob...
who knows what can pacify a crowd, a figure of authority or a bullet...
my grandmother (a christian) faced an angry mob (Muslims) who wanted to kill her because her last name was similar to a known writer who denounced that particular muslim population... The only thing that diverted the mob away from my grandmother, was a neighbor lady who swore on a Quran that my grandmother was a Jew... Of course, Quran is authority... would some guy be able to divert the bike mob? i have no idea...
since this entire matter is in the court of public opinion, i can only base my personal opinion on the video and the stereotypes...
and any of us can end up in a similar situation, that is scary... seems like the guy took his family for a Sunday drive, when the bikers decided to do a street racing, or some other un-sanctioned street activities, thus, started to block off the public roadways... the guy hits a biker who throws his bike on the car's bumper, the rest of the guys become agitated... the driver is scared, and at one moment he launches to get away from the imminent danger... as he is taking off, he runs over some stupid f*ck who gets in the front of a 2-ton (or is it 3-ton?) SUV. Now, the guy who is ran over, is separated from the vicious and stupid mob, and he becomes a caring and gentle guy again... and we hear that he did not deserve it, blah-blah-blah...
just think of it - did the father of the family leave the house in the morning so he could run over the biker? or, did the biker leave his house so he could engage in some questionable activities, like riding on illegally blocked off street?
I can't picture myself in the biker's shoes (not because i do not ride, but because i try to stay on the good side of the law) but i can easily picture myself behind the wheel of that SUV... And besides my training, that tells me to do exactly what the guy did (plus, lock the doors), i would have done the same even without the training...
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