Friday Poll Day: You Make the Charge

By Damien Newton
Jun 17, 2011

If a man who looked like this were driving a car…

…and he drove into a group of forty people, injuring eleven, sending six into surgery and one into a coma and they all looked like this:

What charges would the LAPD bring against the driver?

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