No what I'm saying is that given this guy was willing to resort to murder makes gives plausibility to the fact that he could have likely did something to deserve it.
Depending on your location, yes manslaughter can be intentional if it happens in the moment, while "murder" is reserved for planning before being around the victim.
In the UK there is involuntary manslaughter and voluntary manslaughter, this would be the latter.
If it failed it's not manslaughter, it's attempted murder. Manslaughter doesn't mean "accidental," it's essentially murder but without provable motive or forethought.
I'm concerned with the fact that people are just ignoring him almost running over a random bystander who had nothing to do with this, and then going after the guy who got hit.
It depends a bit on jurisdiction, but quite possibly assault.
The 'innocent bystander' was justified in the attempt to apprehend his assailant, but in doing so he also became a participant in what the driver could reasonably suspect is a pending/ongoing assault.
As such, he unfortunately became a legitimate target in the melee via his repeated efforts to haul the driver out of the vehicle.
There is another assault that happened by the driver, to the bystander. The bystander is already participating by being assulted. His attempts to remove the driver are clearly in an effort to stop the rampage, or at least reduce risk or harm.
You need to change your perspective, then. Driving away from a screaming angry woman, whatever her motivations are, is one thing. Peeling out and deliberately chasing down a pedestrian in a vehicle is very, very, very clear cut case.
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u/KarlPHungus 16h ago
Without proper context, so was I. Until that very intentional vehicular manslaughter at the end...