Zipperfish Zipperfish:
Gullible? I don't think so. Live video from several angles of a nazi gunning his vehicle into the middle of a crowd sending people literally flying, and you hold that she died of a heart attack. She died of blunt force trauma. Her heart may have stopped as a result if being hit by two tons of hurtling metal, but, as it turns out, hearts usually do stop when you are fatally hit. Only a sick bastard would blame that murderous intent on obesity and smoking.
She did die of a heart attack. Blunt force trauma death is death after cardiac arrest.
It happens in sport.
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Each victim collapsed with cardiac arrest immediately after an unexpected blow to the chest, which was usually inflicted by a projectile (such as a baseball or hockey puck).
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE ... 8103330602Now when I say Gullible (and you forgot ignorant) I mean your fixated on the speed of the car going up the road you saw in a small video clip. That's all you seem to know about. There's much more. You'll hear about it when the court case starts.
But here's a little bit without Newsweek's leftist rhetoric governing your belief on the chest trauma thing and what it might mean in court.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE — Heather Heyer’s cause of death was blunt force injury to the chest, according to the Central District Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond.
Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal who was protesting the white nationalist Unite the Right rally in downtown Charlottesville on Aug. 12, died after a car rammed a crowd of pedestrians gathered at Fourth and Water streets. Dozens more were injured.
The manner of Heyer’s death is still pending, a representative with the office said Monday.
James Alex Fields Jr., of Ohio, is charged with second-degree murder, five counts of malicious wounding, three counts of aggravated malicious wounding and one count of hit-and-run. He is being held at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.
Virginia code states that all murder — other than capital murder and murder in the first degree — is murder of the second degree.
Scott Goodman, an attorney who isn’t associated with the case, said the state would have to prove that malice was involved. He also said a court could determine that the vehicle was used as a weapon...[
http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/h ... 960fa.htmlSo Fields is most likely going to be convicted on something. My point is that it may not be the big one. It may not be 2nd degree murder.
They'll want to prove 2 things - malice and the car struck Heyer.
Now, believe it or not, there's much more video and background on what may have put Fields in the situation where he was roaring up that alley. Malice is going to be more difficult to prove than you think.
There's more video on Heather's march pre and post collision. I've seen it or at least I've seen more of it than you have.
You can see her marching up behind and to the side of this black truck. Then there's a video blank spot. Or at least I can't find video of what happened next. The next video you can find shows a vague fuzzy image of somebody Heyer's large shape, dressed in black as she was dressed. She's falling to the ground, to the side of the crash. She's in a crowd about 20 feet back of where we last saw her by the black truck.
Something pushed her back 20 feet. It wasn't necessarily a car. There are claims the crowd pushed back when it saw the car coming. She was in the middle of it the last time we saw her clear. So assuming they can prove this chest trauma as sole cause claim, what caused it? The car, the crowd, something after the collision. I don't know and neither you do you.
The prosecution will be painting a picture of a malice ridden Nazi roaring up the road looking for a crowd to plow into.
The defence will present a traumatized young guy in need of medication to make the world seem real, forced up a blind alley by the municipal government's politically charged, mismanaged commands to police. They'll show how he meets screaming crowds who are smashing and throwing thing into his vehicle - a classic car he kept in immaculate condition and went to much trouble to acquire. He's confused, he's scared he doesn't know what to do. He's not even sure where he is. That's what the defense will be putting forward. No malice there.
You say they can't do it, because you saw a 3 second clip of him racing up the road. I say you're wrong. I say the defense of the 2nd degree murder charge is going to be more difficult to prove than you may think.