Heather Heyer's death

Everyone knows that Heather Heyer was run down by a neo-Nazi, said neo-Himmler being one James Fields Jr / James Alex Fields, currently serving time for that crime. At least, so say those who use this as an example of why we need to ban more books and more blogs.

If we're getting pedantic, Fields was properly a White Identitarian, not a supporter of National Socialism. Although that's likely changed now that he's seen where moderation has gotten him...

More to the point, after Fields tried to push his way through a mob of rioters, and although some overweight 30+ white women were observed beating on his car and being flung to the side... initial reports were that Heyer wasn't one of them. She collapsed on the sidewalk. Her own mother at first thought she's suffered a heart attack. The autopsy reported instead, "blunt force trauma" on the chest.

So we can at least question those initial reports, which we got from Red Ice and the Occidental Observer, that Heyer died of a heart attack.

The series of events look more like: after Fields plowed his car through the mob, many people in the road (not Heyer) were hurled in the air, pushed to the side, or just tripped and fell over. Some socialist named Burke fell on Heyer. Heyer, dressed in black on a hot day, passed out. Burke - severely injured himself - noticed she wasn't moving and got up so she could get CPR. The CPR broke her weakened ribcage. She did not survive it.

That means it wasn't Fields' direct intent that Heyer died. But. Helen Dale notes some Latin clause about, if a death happens as a result of acts taken whilst you're doing a crime, even if that death or even injury wasn't your object, you're still liable for the damage. It is Fields' fault that he'd hit the other rioters...

... who were, in fact, obstructing traffic and terrorising Fields. The alt righters currently defending Fields would, I think, counter, okay then, was this 20 year old loser supposed to get out of the car, step out, and reason with the crowd? Maybe they should lock up Burke (guilty of riot) with Fields in his cell.

This much I'll leave to other blogs to decide.