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Anybody know if this is true?

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Piss poorly written article. It's NOT "law" as the House hasn't yet passed it nor has pencil-dicked Haslam signed it or allowed it to become law w/o his signature.

Good way to get manslaughter charges filed against you, IMO.  

I hope it's true. This blocking road shit is bullshit. We need one of those felony antiterrorism bills for the "road blockers " as well. Then if somebody was killed when run over we could charge the other protesters with their death.

Then there is the Klu Klux Kenevil method.  Jump 1000 protesters with a pavement roller.  Eliminates the protestors and adds a new layer to the pavement!  LOL

JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would be interested to know if this legislation has actually been introduced or not.  Reads like fake news but one can always hope it's at least partially true.  I think North Dakota actually passed one like this recently.

Per the CBS TV station here (Channel 5 Nashville), it has.

Senate version already passed:

http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=SB0944

I don't see that it does anything that existing law already doesn't. You already can't purposely run over pedestrians even if they are behaving unlawfully, unless the unlawful behavior poses an immediate threat of death or serious injury to you or yours, same as any other lethal force situation.

- OS

Officer I was in fear for my life!!!!!

There have been incidents in the last couple years, where that could easily be true.  

During BLM protests, there were times when the mob of protesters attacked cars, particularly if the driver attempted to go around the mob or inch their way through.

During one of the "protests" that was blocking a main road to a Trump campaign rally, a hardtop Jeep tried inching it's way through, and the mob surrounded it and started beating on it, with a few climbing on top of it and jumping up and down.  When it had nearly made it through the mob, police moved in and pushed the mob back to allow the Jeep to get clear. As the officers backed off, one of the idiots yelled at the cops that the Jeep driver was guilty of attempted murder (apparently for inching forward through the mob).