"How many of y’all wondered like I did during the LA riots when those people were being pulled out of their trucks and beaten half to death, how many of y’all wondered like I did… Step on the fucking gas, man! They're on foot, you're in a truck … I think I see a way out of this. It’s that pedestrian right of way law."
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