If anyone has video or pictures of this incident, or is willing to be a witness, please e-mail me personally- joesacco (at) myway.com or publish the media here or on Las Vegas Indymedia- lvimc.org

Joe, thanks for your willingness to stand up to the IMF and World Bank. I'm so sorry that this happened to you, and I hope you'll take care of yourself and stay strong! -matt in boston

MAybe if you got you dumbass of the streets you wouldnt get run over fool.

Please help this guy.

This should lead to a serious charge such as "Assault with a Deadly Weapon", or maybe "attempted murder."

Realistically, since a political motive was likely involved, it could be considered and act of terrorism under FBI definitions of the term.

Of course the trolls think killing someone who doesn't agree with them is ok. Then they get upset when we compare them to Nazis.

why the fuck are you standing in front of a private citizens vehicle instead of the delegates you were there to target? you reap what you sow.

Did any of you ever think the ones really are hurting are the citizens of this city who really are the only ones disrupted by your protests. I work two jobs and when all of you come to town Iam often delayed for hours by your silly antics.

Not saying this guy should have been hit, but I can fully understand why it happened.

And what really disturbing is how he is already screaming about getting laywer and suing this person. Pretty smart of him to claim neck and back injuries right away, but let me clue you in, a jury of the citizens of DC will have VERY little sumpathy for you.

Hey, if you want to stnad in the middle of the street at 4:30 in the morning when IT IS STILL DARK OUTSIDE and you get hit, blame yourself. What idiot protests at 4:30 in the morning standing in the middle of the street anyway? Seriously guys, what did you expect?

Did any of you ever think the ones really are hurting are the citizens of this city who really are the only ones disrupted by your protests. I work two jobs and when all of you come to town Iam often delayed for hours by your silly antics.

Not saying this guy should have been hit, but I can fully understand why it happened.

And what really disturbing is how he is already screaming about getting laywer and suing this person. Pretty smart of him to claim neck and back injuries right away, but let me clue you in, a jury of the citizens of DC will have VERY little sumpathy for you.

What the hell are you people saying?

OF COURSE it's an issue who protests affect more--the working people we want to help empower or the fat cats we strive to disempower. This is a legitimate debate, and if you want to talk about it legitmately, let's! It needs to be done seriously everytime we think about a tactic.

BUT you can "fully understand" someone slamming their SUV into another person because he has inconvenienced them for a brief period of time, and then speeding with that person on their hood for blocks for no real purpose other than to cause serious injury (possibly death)? That is monstrous. EVEN if you disagree with the political agenda, even if the tactics are misplaced, and even if the person standing in the street were unquestionably stupid for doing so, intentionally running him over with your car is completely (and obviously) unjustified and unthinkable. The person who did this deserves prison time for sure.

Yet, you think it's disturbing that Sacco wants to make sure that someone who loses their cool over their car being temporary blocked to the point of nearly KILLING over it should be kept from doing this again. What's disturbing is you somehow think that running him over was justified!

Look, you may think that the tactics were aimed at the wrong people, you may be angry about it, or you may disagree with the political agenda completely. But in the long run none of that begins to explain what goes through someone's head when they decide to hit someone else with their car.

As for the poster who so cleverly pointed out that it was dark outside, it's pretty apparent from the fact that the driver STOPPED and then CHARGED and DROVE FOR BLOCKS WITHOUT STOPPING WITH THE MAN ON HIS HOOD that he had no problem seeing the victim.

The extent to which you people must no longer think of people with different political beliefs than you as fully human is disgusting.

you preach about a brief inconvenience yet what do you know of the fear that motorist had when surrounded by several people on all sides? would you honestly be concerned for the hood ornament you now have hanging onto your wiperblades or your own safety?

target the people that matter, not some poor soul who is going to work or doing what any normal us citizen is supposed to be doing, abiding by the law. your actions were terroristic to say the least considering your mob numbered in the hundreds. any normal person would fear for their safety.

I will represent the driver free of charge if he will leave info on how to contact him.He probably thought he was being carjacked. I will win the case.

Give that driver 50 points.

We all know that Bush Lies and People Dies. That is why the really cool progressives want all of the other Amerika haters to join in with the anti-war movement. We can get over on the corporate controlled media by not telling them that the Internet chat boards are the ways and means we use to let other really cool progressives follow along with the socialist/communist agenda that we promote through A.N.S.W.E.R. and MoveOn.org.

The Internet allows us really cool progressives to question authority. Really cool progressives like me and the Web Fairy question authority and have intellectual discussion on the fact that it was squib charges and holograms used on 9/11, not the propaganda put out by the corporate controlled media of 19 hijackers and jet airplanes.

I am somewhat of an expert on 9/11. I can look at a 72 dpi image on a really cool progressive Web site and tell you more than any aerospace or civil engineer what really happened.

There's a lot more going on in the 9/11 cover-up than meets the eye. People who buy every word that the corporate-controlled media says should go buy George Orwell's 1984 and practice up; it won't be long before the hopelessly indoctrinated manage to get the clocks to thirteen here. Peace. – Scott Laughrey

After reading some of the responses to Mr. Sacco's identical post on Las Vegas Indymedia, I would take his claims with a large grain of salt.

According to several people who claim to know Mr. Sacco, he is notorious around Las Vegas activist circles for his exagerations and self-promotion. All we have is his unverified claim and one fuzzy picture of the back end of an SUV. No eyewitness posts. No video. No photos of him on the hood, nothing. Also, it seems just too convenient that he was "hit" by an SUV & not a regular car. the motorist drove 8 BLOCKS with Sacco "gripping the windshield wipers"? Give me a break!

I don't have any media, but I was a few feet away an saw the whole thing, along with a dozen others. Consider this an eyewitness post.

We don't have video of Mr. Sacco; maybe someone does. We do have video of police assaulting the person who was arrested that evening.

It's on Hi-8 tape...should be able to convert once I get another tape from yesterday's White House demo unstuck from my camcorder.

why do you people routinely shoot yourselves in the foot by pissing off the average person that just wants to get to work by standing in the middle of the road? You turn us against you. Can you for one second put yourself in the shoes of a person trying to run an important errand, perhaps dropping their kid off at day care and then going to work, and then having some assholes blocking an intersection because they don't like the world bank. Can you morons do that, or is it beyond you?

Here's the point, if you want to protest the world bank, or anything for that matter, don't do so at the expense of average people just tryin' to make a living. You'll just turn them off to your cause, like you have myself. I don't really even care what your cause is anymore, all I know is that you don't think for a second about anyone but yourselves and your methods are a hindrance to people that you aren't even protesting against. Can you comprehend this or not? I'm seriously asking. Also, you probably shouldn't be surprised that someone gets hit by a vehicle if they are standing in the road. It's hard to feel sympathy for someone that doesn't understand that car defeats human in a head to head wrestling match.

All of you stupid kids are clueless about how to persuade people. You should just stay home in mom and dads basement, smoke some weed, play some ps2 and jerk off like you usually do. None of care about the message of a bunch of immature, naive and selfish assholes.

Going to work? Dropping kids off at daycare? At 4am on sunday?

Maybe if the average person cared to inquire as to the reason for the action, everyone would come away more enlightened.

Also, this is basically trying to justify attempted murder with annoyance. Apply that to any other situation and see if it sticks.

Moron. If we only cared about ourselves, we would be bitching that these people are blocking the roads. Instead we risk arrest and beatings to stop empire that actually hurts real people trying to go to actually survive. I know DC pretty well and odds are if they were around the capitol at 4:30. They were not the average poor DCite. If a little inconvenience bothers you all. You are just the bitches for the empire. You are the same as the people who bitch about katrina causing gas prices to go up. Fuck the fact that people lost EVERYTHING. As long as it doesn't inconvenience you. RBG's. Click Clack you inconsiderate piece of crap.

It sticks, The vast majority of Americans despise you nasty smelling morons. And what is up with that personal hygine thing with you demonstrators why cant you bathe or shower? Keep your nasty goobersmooching ass out of the road numnuts and you wont get run over. How stupid can you get. I think the suv driver should get a hundred points

They despise us so much that they spend their valuable patriotic time on our websites.

actually dropping your child off in the wee hours of the morning is consistant with having responsibilities for employment and family. not everyone works a 9-5, m-f job. maybe the driver was actually getting off from work and trying to go home?

ill tell you what, if i am surrounded by a group of people as i sit in my car, i'm stepping on the gas and running over whomever is in my path. i'll drive right to the police station and tell what happened. i won't get charged because my defense is that i feared for my life. i didn't know the intentions of the people surrounding me so i panicked. i thought that i was going to be killed.

no ausa in superior court is going to sign that warrant, so the judge in chambers won't even see it. i bet the speedbump i ride over gets charged though.

What if it's not a group of people - what if it's one kid, by himself, trying to talk to you?

you were just incredibly effective at premeditating murder....

"your actions were terroristic to say the least considering your mob numbered in the hundreds. any normal person would fear for their safety."

This is OBVIOUSLY a cop talking. "Terroristic"? Are you fucking for real? Terrorists blow up shit and hurt innocent civilians...not surround vehicles at protests. NICE TRY THOUGH, PIGLET.

Again, if we are terrorists...PUT US ON THE FRONT PAGE OF EVERY NEWSPAPER IN THE COUNTRY AND WARN THE MASSES! But you can't, can you...? Nope, of course you can't.

"The vast majority of Americans despise you nasty smelling morons."

I like how the most hopelessly pathetic dregs of society like to speak on behalf of "the vast majority" of people...as if there was a single shred of proof for it. Not only are cops and defenders-of-state so violent, callous, malicious and ignorant...they're generally just so incredibly stupid.

I guess "the most hopelessly pathetic dregs of society" are all the so-called progressives who always claim that they speak "for the people" as if there was a single shred of proof for it - "the people say" "the people demand" "the people's tribunal" etc.

this is to the poster who called me a piglet. check these links for the words terrorism and terrorist. once you have read the definintions i believe you may have to eat crow. btw, i'm not a piglet. i'm a bailbondsman, close though, huh?

dictionary.reference.com/search

dictionary.reference.com/search

The only reason that Bush's illegal war for oil is able to continue is by the jingoistic flag waving of the corporate controlled media. The really cool progressives like me and Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore use the Internet to question authority and have intellectual discussion of topics that the corporate controlled media won't cover.

I am somewhat of an expert on 9/11. I know from looking at some really cool progressive Web sites that it wasn't the propaganda that the corporate controlled media would have you believe of 19 hijackers and jet airplanes.

The Web Fairy and me have some really cool progressive sites that show how it was squib charges and holograms that destroyed the WTC. I can look at a 72 dpi image posted on a really cool progressive Web site and tell you exactly how steel is affected by burning jet fuel and the physics of an impact of 500-plus mph by a large object. That is what the Internet can do for us really cool progressives.

There's a lot more going on in the 9/11 cover-up than meets the eye. People who buy every word that the corporate-controlled media says should go buy George Orwell's 1984 and practice up; it won't be long before the hopelessly indoctrinated manage to get the clocks to thirteen here. Peace. -- Scott Laughrey

You know there are hidden cameras EVERYWHERE in DC, especially in front of an IMF building...You should urge the police to obtain surveillance footage of this incident.

i gave a hypothetical scenario, dumbass.

but since you mentioned that it WAS 4a.m., then I have less sympathy for the idiot that got plowed. Bad things happen at 4 in the morning. I'd have ran him over too. I'll bet the driver was scared to death. I hope more of you communist, terrorist-supporting goofs get ran over too.

get in my way, and i'll turn you into a pancake.

"Terrorism":

The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group.

First off, these definitions SUCK. They are too broad and general. I guess relying on the Dictionary is only useful when not looking up words with ideological conotations. ;)

But even still, "violence or force". That means physical violence. It doesn't mean passive resistance, bailbondsman (as if that's something to take pride in) lol.

Wouldn't that make the driver of the SUV a terrorist?

why did you edit the definition? is it because you can't handle the truth?

here's the link for violence, read and learn.

dictionary.reference.com/search

yes i do take pride in my profession.

The driver is a terrorist. To the person concerned that they are held up for hours when protestors "come to town", I have this advice to offer - you live in the "belly of the beast", if you cannot tolerate citizens challenging that beast perhaps Kansas is the place for you.

No action by protestors justified being hit with intent. To the poster who gawked at hanging onto wipers, what would you have held onto - the side mirror?

At that time of the morning in DC the asswipe is lucky some homey didn't shoot his white ass. Probably was hit by a local returning home from a local club in a hip hop and crack induced haze.

At that time of the morning in DC the asswipe is lucky some homey didn't shoot his white ass. Probably was hit by a local returning home from a local club in a hip hop and crack induced haze.

crack, crack, crack...
If I were king, I wouldn't fear a trip.
Should I repress feelings? NO...

What is with this anti-spam nonsense? Are my Washington cowards seeking to control?


This is bull shit. Enter your fucking FBI, or CIA 'anti'spam'

I will continue to pray for bush's death.
Fuck you censorious cowards! This IS STILL Washington. This is the same lie that has been called Ameristink.

If you hit someone with your car you stop immediately. It does not matter if they are a damned fool or drunk or whatever and it certainly does not matter what their politics are and it certainly does not matter if you are on your way to work and you may be late.

I'm responding to the idiot that said "belly of the beast."

Regardless of where you live, I want just one of you commie shitheads to tell me how running around in the street at 4 am, blocking traffic, and harrassing motorists is going to help your cause.

If you are trying to persuade people to see things your way, you will fail miserably by being a public nuisance. Stick to protesting against the world bank, or whatever your cause may be. But for your own good and safety, don't annoy or harrass innocent people. You are just shooting yourselves in the foot.

The blogs here standing up for the SUV driver are utterly despicable. Were any of you right wing fascists ran over by a truck of protestors you would be swift to call it an act of terrorism and sue the crap out of every organization involved. How is this any different? In the world we live, under the antiPatriot Act, this was nothing less than use of a weapon of mass destruction for attempted murder. All the best wishes Sacco...

The blogs here standing up for the SUV driver are utterly despicable. Were any of you right wing fascists ran over by a truck of protestors you would be swift to call it an act of terrorism and sue the crap out of every organization involved. How is this any different? In the world we live, under the antiPatriot Act, this was nothing less than use of a weapon of mass destruction for attempted murder. All the best wishes Sacco...

50 points is not enough, I give the SUV driver is least 100 points.

I am an eyewitness. Sacco got run down towards the beginning of the event. At this point all the different groups had not had a chance to fully organize (though we all did within half an hour after that). The driver may have been alarmed at first, but this quickly turned to rage. We were trying to redirect him as we were still trying to set up the intersection blocks. We were also still deciding whether to let all civilian traffic pass or keep them all from passing, and there was some confusion whether to let him go or not. We decided to keep them all from passing because otherwise there would be too much cofusion and delegates would be able to slip through. No more than two people at a time approached him and tried explaining what we were doing but he wasn't even listening at that point, just foaming at the mouth (this is a figure of speech for all you assumptuous assholes). He just snapped and hit the gas without letting go or slowing down. His alternative would have been taking the extra couple minutes to go around the block and avoid the entire thing altogether.
As a sidenote, we were letting all civilian traffic OUT of the perimiter. Those we were redirecting that cared to ask were explained by ONE person at a time what we were doing and were given simple and quick directions around. We were merely a fly on the wall to those people.
We did stop all shuttle busses for delegates. We stopped taxis from leaving. Those who had to walk (and dozens did) were followed and heckled by members of the event. We made those fuckers take the criminal's march.
These are people that subjugate the rest of the world with economic warfare that leaves entire third world nations trying to grow in complete shambles. If you are going to be so ridiculously and non-sensically bitchy about what we were doing, try to actually get a picture of the real fucking story, jackasses.

Exactly. And there are at least a dozen more eyewitnesses who can attest to the same thing, so do everyone a favor and, when you're about to spout off some bullshit presumption about some kind of ambush, don't.

How do you know how the driver felt? Who the fuck are you to redirect someone from their normal lifestyle? Who the fuck are you to decide when to block the streets and decide who passes? You state his alternative would have been to turn around and go the other direction; your alternative would have been to directly confront those that matter and not those who are going about their normal daily routine.

Perimeter, what perimeter were you enforcing? Maybe one person would approach the driver's window, yet others blocked any forward movement of the motorists you stopped. You were not flys, you were gnats, and one of you ended up stuck on the windsheild of an suv.

Stopping shuttle buses and heckling delegates, that's fine with me. Leave the rest of us alone, those who choose to go about our lives without being harrassed and forced into your game. Until you and your comrades do that, remember that the next suv you step in front of could be mine. Got the picture?

Maybe one person would approach the driver's window, yet others blocked any forward movement of the motorists you stopped.

Nope. There was only the one guy in the street. Try again.

You are obviously a plant by Homeland Security as part of a COINTELPRO black bag psy-ops operation.

Me and the Web Fairy can use our really cool progressive Web sites to show you that it was holograms used by the government. They also used squib charges.

The latest talking points fed to us from A.N.S.W.E.R. and MoveOn.org DEMAND that we impeach the Bush regime. That is why the Internet chat boards are full of really cool progressives like me and Cindy Sheehan and other members of the angry, bitter left who have very few other means to express our collective voices since we are pretty much regarded [politically] as the fringe minority.

But we will DEMAND that Rep. John Conyers set up more informal hearings [they can’t be formal since we are the fringe minority] and that he and other members of the angry, bitter left talk about the Downing Street Memos some more and maybe then Dr. Dean will chime in with how Bush stole the election in Ohio.

These Internet chat boards have given us really cool progressives a voice and we are using Internet chat to let the people of the world know that a lot of us have a lot of free time and also that Bush Lies and People Dies.

Peace. – Scott Laughrey

thanks scott and others for pointing out that OBVIOUSLY our "Anonymous Poster" is a divisive-planted infiltrator. Fuck you - stop wasting your time repeating yourself. We can see right through you and aren't hearing a thing you ahve to sayl. Half of DC was out there with us dumbass. - tgn from RMO

First you said this:

"We were trying to redirect him as we were still trying to set up the intersection blocks. We were also still deciding whether to let all civilian traffic pass or keep them all from passing, and there was some confusion whether to let him go or not."

Then you said this:

"No more than two people at a time approached him and tried explaining what we were doing..."

So which is correct? Was he alone or were there others near the suv/van? Remember, these are your words.

By the way, where is the media evidence that was reported to have been obtained by the dozens of witnesses that were on the scene? Your account is faulty.

If I'm driving into an intersection in the dark and a mob tries to stop me, I'm not slowing down to ask questions about their political cause, I'm going to get out of there. The driver of this SUV was probably scared to death. If you create this situtation, you shouldn't be surprised if you get hit with a car. This driver may very well share your political beliefs, but their natural instinct caused them to flee.

Hey, did you hear the World Bank and IMF have been abolished?!?!


Yeah, me neither.

Congratulations on another worthless protest!

Joe deserved to get run over. It's only too bad that he is making this story up.

I am a big indymedia supporter

I also poop my pants twice a day and go by the name "Bobo."

If YOU drive an SUV, YOU are part of the problem. Your SUV uses twice the fuel of a "real" car, and is built using a lot more resources as well. The behavior of the IMF, World Bank-and of course the Pentagon-make your lifestyle possible.

People may have cars all over the world, but these gas-guzzling SUV's are unique to the United Snakes. Why were you stopped? You were porbably mistaken for a delegate or a cop-and may as well have been one...

I thought the original story was funny, until I read all the replies. I thought I would be the only one who also who have run that dumb fuck down. God, I really want to see that video. I honestly think I might piss myself.

wow. you fbi and cia fucks really have too much time on yr hands! isn't there something more important for you to do than post bullshit on this site and then ANSWER YR OWN POSTS?! i guess not!

There's plenty of responsibility to go around here:

First of all, the driver of the SUV should've slowed down or stopped in time to avoid running Sacco over.

Secondly, Sacco should NOT have placed himself in the position where he'd be more likely to get run over in the first place.

Thirdly--yes, you demonstrators have a right to demonstrate, because demonstrations do have their place as long as they're done respectfully and in an organized fashion. Disrupting people's schedules and preventing buses, cabs, etc from leaving, and blocking traffic, hereby making it difficult for ambulance, fire and police vehicles to get through are totally unacceptable.