Originally Posted by
Archigeek
Walking down the street does not equal "joining the melee" no matter how many times you say it.
The car sped up as it approached the crowd and plowed into them. While it was picking up speed, it was bypassing a sparse crowd to get to a dense crowd, going through an earlier intersection where he could have easily turned to avoid the crowd instead of choosing to increase his speed and hit the crowd. You keep make it sound like an accident, or that those who were walking and, oh my God, chanting, had it coming. They did not, and the available evidence suggests that this was done with deliberate malice aforethought. He wouldn't have stopped if he hadn't hit another vehicle, and fled the scene at high speed.
For a law and order guy you sure have strange ideals about justice.