Police said they arrested a man who drove his SUV through a “No Kings” protest Saturday, hitting at least one person.

The Culpeper Police Department (CPD) said officers stopped Joseph R. Checklick Jr, 21, of Culpeper after they saw him drive recklessly through the group in the area of 801 James Madison Hwy.

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    10 hours ago

    Police said … Checklick “intentionally accelerated his vehicle into the dispersing crowd.” … faces a charge of reckless driving…

    Dude intentionally accelerated his SUV into a crowd and gets charged with reckless driving. I sincerely hope it’s a felony at least.

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    19 hours ago

    How could anyone be against no king protest?

    Aren’t they saying yes kings if they are against it?

    These boot lickers are getting out of hand

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      9 hours ago

      Not that I agree, but the logic is that the name is deceptive and they’re just against Trump I assume. Just like a “protect the children” act has nothing to do with protecting children. Names aren’t necessarily accurate.

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      14 hours ago

      Same reason they’re against Antifa. You would think being anti-fascist is an easy position to take, but here we are.

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      15 hours ago

      There should be recreational sugar boots or rather just comfort boots you can carry around with and lick, it should be normalized like breastfeeding.

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      18 hours ago

      Because American politics is just an us vs them game. No reasoning, no discussion, just the other bad.

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        17 hours ago

        Don’t forget the “as long as the other person has it worse than me” rethoric.

        Doesn’t matter if they suffer, as long as the people they dislike suffer even more.

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    22 hours ago

    “reckless driving” if you’re a fascist

    “attempted murder” if you’re less than 100% white

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      20 hours ago

      Well… at least he was actually driving. I would normally expect phrasing like “the SUV drove…” (independently and without any controlling driver as all cars involved in accidents do *cough*) nowadays.