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Bangor police investigated and identified the driver as Ryan Hayward, 38, of Bangor.
He was arrested and is charged with reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, driving to endanger, and violating conditions of release.
I'm about your age and its crazy how differently aged people look in our age now. I stayed out of the sun and never played contact sports so I'm still in pretty good shape. It gets a little awkward when people assume I'm a lot younger and I have to tell them, "no I'm actually old, I was born in 83"(I make them do the math cause I'm too old to remember how old I am. It t's hard cause the number changes every year and the years keep going by faster and faster)
Idk why, maybe because the elements of the charge are really hard to prove but it has been my experience that prosecutors rarely use the attempted murder charge.
I just have seen so many incidences that look to me and just about everyone else like attempted murder and the prosecutors never pull out that charge.
I suspect that it likely has to do with the trial, that maybe the elements are harder to prove with that so they go with some lesser charge.
I mean if I am a defense attorney trying to defend against attempted murder I would be pointing out that if my client really wanted to kill him he would have been driving faster or would have turned around to make another pass.
Intent is a big part of the charge with attempted murder and it would be easy to argue that you can't determine beyond a reasonable doubt that the intent was to kill and not put him in the hospital or scare him.
The Maine Wire is commonly referred to as Maine Liar by locals. It's a right-wing media group that posts mostly bullshit. So more than likely yes to your first question and no to the second question.
Yeah, so, while the guy trying to kill him is wrong, he's at a place that people would like to keep private, and he's trying to "catch" them coming out.
Nasty shit. It kinda looked like the car went for the camera and not the person, hard to say. But I can definitely see why the driver felt the person "reporting" on folks coming out of there would be trying to reveal private information about them, with that context.
It's also inane as hell to try to paint methadone as some horrible intoxicating substance. It's a life saver.
This is what I hate. The guys like this 'reporter' are the "I'm not touching you" of society. They're absolutely consciously doing what they can within the law to get under your skin and get a reaction out of someone and then film them as if they're the problem for losing their shit.
I put these guys in the same basket as the "I'm just asking questions" guys after basically making an accusation while withholding half the truth or misrepresenting facts.
I’m currently being downvoted to hell for suggesting that while it may be legal, it is also immoral to film certain things…. A rehab centre would be among them. A battered women’s shelter, anywhere children are playing outside…. All perfectly legal to film but also… why? Why do it?
If you’re doing a story about methadone, why do you have to film the actual individuals coming out of rehab?
"Methadone clinic" to me falls under the moral umbrella of "medical treatment". HIPAA prevents providers from releasing identifiable health information of any patient. While that doesn't do anything legally about laypeople in public spaces watching and identifying anyone who comes and goes from any medical facility... like, the framework is there. Don't be a dick, let people's medical issues and patronage of medical buildings be their own damn business.
I agree with you on methadone. Knew someone that went through it and is all better now. Save their life.
In regard to the guy filming. He might have a LEGAL right to film in public. But that doesn’t make it ethically right to do this with people coming out of the clinic. It’s just rude, cold and disrespectful. Obviously his parents didn’t raise him with any sort of lessons on decency
I will concede this is an absolute extreme, with that being said…
I have personal experience with how addicts who are actively on methadone/suboxone can be treated and let me tell you…it can COST you.
Society at large does NOT award addicts for getting the help they need and the system is judgy as shit about it.
It not just in one place either it’s all over the country (I have traveled extensively). I’m not accusing anyone in the comments or defending his actions (although it looks to me like he’s going for the camera) but outing daily users can cost them their job, future opportunities, relationships and so on.
The guy has every right to “report” on it but the guy asking the questions is not wrong either in that, their privacy is paramount.
I can see where a desperate, totally down on their luck addict who is FINALLY getting the help that they need, after losing everything many, many, many, times before this feeling a need to “defend” the people/property.
I’m not saying what he did was right but I am saying I understand.
Really stretching the use of reporter. Smacking on a mouthful of chewing gum in a trucker hat arguing with junkies on the side of the road uploaded to tiktok.
While simultaneously thinking that murdering someone they perceive to be breaking a law, rightly or wrongly, is fine.
I really think this is the sort of case where a bad attempt at murder should give someone life in prison. How do you redeem a person like this who clearly has something seriously wrong with them that keeps them from functioning at a basic level in society?
Agreed! The only difference between “attempted” murder and “murder” is the death of the victim. The number of cases where someone received a short sentence for “attempted” murder and then gets out of prison to successfully murder their original victim is astounding.
The “attempt” should be taken more seriously. They intended to kill someone.
At the very least a 100mi restraining order enforceable by prison time if it was found to have been knowingly violated just makes sense.
The US is a big place and getting locked out of Cleveland until the day you die seems like a very small price to make someone pay for trying to murder somebody, so at the very least we can do that.
Like if they're going to be recording our every move and can pull our geo data whenever they feel like it, can we at least get a benefit from that? And if not maybe they can, yknow, not make a surveillance state.
Hope you guys are keeping track of all the companies like flock replacing flock cameras with their own. Flock is just the most recognizable asshole, check your local communities folks!
The dude filming in public is a far right wing reporter doing an expose on a methadone clinic and claiming the clinic is nothing but a state funded drug dealer. He’s probably also the type to see a homeless drug addict and wonder why he won’t get help.
Basically, what I’m saying, the reporter may have a right to film in public but he’s also a scumbag.
EDIT: I never said the guy almost running the scumbag over was justified in his actions; however, the guy almost running the scumbag over is also not infringing on the scumbag’s rights. Scumbags seem to forget there can be consequences to being a scumbag.
Yea, as soon as you see a "reporter" with a big thing of mace on their belt, you know that they are just assholes harassing people until they get a reaction.
I was wondering why reporter's dumb ass got into a confrontation with someone at the end of the video and referred to the driver as "patient." So basically the driver thinks he's doxing methadone patients?
Most people think that if something is happening that they don't like, it is wrong, and if it's wrong, there would be a law against it. It's the result of low EQ.
The driver, Ryan Hayward, 38, is charged with reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, driving to endanger, and violation of conditions of release.
In my experience, most reporters don't have to openly carry pepper spray on their belts in the course of their reporting duties. It's generally not necessary for vast majority of reporters.
However, I suppose reporters working in a war zone might consider it, but this does not appear to be a war zone.
Also, not a lot of reporters choosing trucker hats either, but that's totally fine, I suppose. Trucker hats are a valid choice.
It just makes me wonder about the reporting style that needing to carry pepper spray is necessary.
What kind of reporting are you doing where you might need to protect yourself with your pepper spray in the course of your reporting duties?
Nonetheless, the "reporter" was just outside of a treatment center. There was definitely some bias flying around since the reporters news agency is a far right wing tool.
The reporter works for an alt right ‘news’ group in Maine called the Maine Wire. They are awful people. They are known to target Maines Somali residents, trans people, addicts, etc. Not defending the action but these ‘reporters’ are vile excuses for humans.
“Reporting” on people leaving a drug treatment facility is an awful thing to do. They are making a choice to get help. While legal to film in public, this is very immoral. Plus this can get into murky waters if you are targeting with an intent to dox vulnerable patients. Should the guy have came at him with his car? Obviously not. But this “reporter” is acting in bad faith and provoking people seeking stigmatized care.
I saw a video of a guy explaining who this ‘reporter’ is, he’s a pathetic man named Joe Sokol and he’s one of those annoying auditor types were they just harass people in public to get reactions, hence why he has a pepper spray tied to his belt.
However this Sokol guy is even worse than that, he is constantly harassing black people specifically and once they get angry enough he uses that footage conveniently to highlight how the town he lives in is becoming worse due to a drug epidemic or some crap.
It’s truly vile and I don’t feel sorry for whatever comes this guy’s way in the future.
I've said it multiple times, at some point in the future they'll find out what chemical cocktail it was that made a huge chunk of the US mentally... challenged.
People underestimate how bad the education is in rural/poor areas. I went to a poor school, then a magnet school, then I went to another magnet school for high school that was sharing a building with a poor high school. The difference in education was substantial and it made me outright feel bad for the others. One small caveat is the smart kids at poor schools got incredibly easy As and scholarships.
Then I had friends from the rich areas with nice schools and their education was way better than that I got at magnet schools. Poor kids, which are disproportionately but not exclusively black, get a substantially worse education. High school teaches them next to nothing, not even basic math.
For those who don't know, magnet schools in the US are schools that don't require you to live nearby them and tend to have better curriculum.
A good start to fixing it is reallocating private school public funds to public schools, and reallocating property taxes which funds schools to be distributed evenly. You'll still have issues with rural areas, but it's a start.
I don't know if this helps but the poster of this video (the reporter) is a right-wing nut job. The Maine Wire is an awful Facebook-centric "news" thing.
Looks like a drug rehab facility. Makes me wonder why he was recording exactly, but that thought was sidelined after the other guy ran over this guy's camera.
It's not the facility's fault they have a crazy patient. He's a drug addict in recovery afterall. That does explain the guys seemingly random comment insinuating the other guy was driving drunk though.
Everything else aside, this dude did what I've been telling EVERYONE to do: if you are recording and witness a crime, or are a victim of a crime, read the license plate aloud for the camera! That way it will make for better evidence if you ever need to go to court.
This guy works for the Maine Wire. They’re right wing antagonists and this POS was filming people coming in and out of a drug treatment and rehabilitation facility. They’ve been harassing people here for years, getting in their faces and winding them up, then filming and releasing the videos to make them look bad. They had people screaming in protesters faces after the ICE murder here trying to create a story for themselves. This guy’s lucky it’s just his camera that got destroyed.
Facts are this... dude may be an A-hole... driver may be getting help... but nothing excuses a person who is trying to run another person over with their car who isn't using their body as a blockade or trying to get themselves out of a defensive situation. He left and came back with the intent to cause serious harm or death. Inexcusable for any person.
It’s so common in America that people don’t even know what their rights are anymore. No wonder why they elected an authoritarian that they all are oppressed by now. America’s education system has been broken for about 40-50 years now, and it’s finally starting to show the signs.
No idea who this guy is, but as soon as you hear "essentially probably intoxicated" come out of a reporters mouth on the air, you should know immediately they are not a real journalist.
Well, for some one who is worried about privacy that is one way to ensure your face gets plastered on his newscast and on all sorts of places (like here).
the number of people i this country that are willing to run someone smooth over has got to be higher than the number of people who own guns. it's getting out of control. road rage...run them over. see someone standing on the side of the road...run the over. someone running on a sidewalk...run them over. someone riding a bicycle...run them over twice. it's beyond wild.
I honestly don't know what disappoints me more in posts like this... the act being committed or the commentary. I mean Christ on a freakin' cracker... how can anyone even remotely attempt to justify what the driver did?!? You can think "first amendment auditors" are attention seeking fools and still know right from wrong. :-/
I need someone to explain to me how the general public has reached a very large consensus that literal open public space has an expectation of privacy. We even took the time to name it public, public sidewalk, public roadway, public parks. What do they think is the reason we added the public modifier to all those things for? its like a guy in an RPG wearing full "of the snake gear" and wondering why everything has so much poison resist on it.
He was across the street filming. This is a protected right. You have no expectation of privacy in public.
While he may have been a so-called auditor. Which I generally despise. He's also doing nothing illegal, immoral, or questionable.
That driver however. Needs to be arrested asap.
Great job immediately calling out the plate! Excellent presence of mind. “You’re invading people’s privacy” there is no expectation of privacy in public. Committing a crime on camera after putting your face clearly on camera is a weird way to try to preserve the privacy you claim to care about lol
BANGOR, Maine — A Bangor resident was arrested Thursday after The Maine Wire released a video of a man driving a car toward one of its reporters.
The Bangor Police Department identified the driver as 38-year-old Ryan Hayward. He is charged with reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, driving to endanger and violation of conditions of release.
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