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A Los Angeles man was intentionally hit head-on by a road-raging driver (www.foxla.com)

submitted 1 year ago by DwZ@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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[–] 5paceThunder@lemmy.ca 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have no idea why when it comes to cars, the phrase "Road Rage" is used instead of attempted murder.

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[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Or at the very least assault with a deadly weapon.

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 year ago*

Lobbyists.

Eventually shooting someone will be "abuse of a firearm". Might be able to get assault w/ deadly weapons by pistol-whipping. You want the lesser charge of firearm abuse, you gotta pull the trigger.

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 year ago

Road rage is why they did it, attempted murder is the crime.

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[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago*

It's a real phenomenon when talking about incidents involving two vehicles because you unconsciously dehumanize the person in the vehicle since you're not directly engaging with them, but their machine, and can't really see the person in it.

Same principle applies on the internet where people aren't seeing a person when they are verbally abusing someone online, which makes it much easier to ignore the empathic part of our brain. At least that's what I heard on the radio.

That being said, this one involves a cyclist so I'd just call it attempted murder too.

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