This is horrible. A white man appears to have been beaten up by scumbag rioters in Salt Lake City after threatening them with a bow and arrow. The video gets rather graphic:
BREAKING: Video out of Salt Lake City shows a man readying to aim a bow & arrow at demonstrators as he yells “all lives matter” – demonstrators jumped him and then set his car on fire. Police responded. pic.twitter.com/ErGUuygkVs
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) May 31, 2020
That is just terrible. It looks like he was upset that something may have happened to his car. Or he felt threatened in some other way.
The person who posted the video claims he was the aggressor:
TO CLARIFY: there were MANY other cars that were there. Protesters did nothing until he told them he had a bow and was threatening to shoot. They THEN attacked his car, and then he stepped out and retrieved the bow.
— Titania v. 2.0 (@Gingersonfire) May 31, 2020
Here’s another view:
WOW: Man in Salt Lake City pulls bow and arrow on protesters blocking traffic and the protesters swarm him, disarm him, assault him then break and flip his vehicle.
— Michael James Coudrey (@MichaelCoudrey) May 31, 2020
This one shows that a few seconds in there’s people trying to protect him and stopping the beating. Unfortunately, the idiot recording just loves the chaos. It’s like a badly written scene from a stupid movie. But it’s real life.
They lit his car on fire:
The SLC police retreated and allowed rioters to light the man’s car on fire. pic.twitter.com/aXhBhXQODO
— Titania v. 2.0 (@Gingersonfire) May 31, 2020
Again, we don’t know what happened before the video. We don’t know who really was the aggressor here. But it doesn’t look good, whatever happened here. There’s not much on the condition of the man yet from local reports.
UPDATE:
Here’s an interview with the guy:
Lmao he said 2 black guys beat him up when he got jumped by 14 white kids pic.twitter.com/rM5UQLmnfH
— dos. (@DosRivers) May 31, 2020
He says it happened because he yelled All Lives Matter, and it’s hard to make out, but he said he went down there to help the police? Not sure about that last detail…