Reason.com's Robby Soave (who did good work during the UVA Rape Hoax ) links to a thread from Taylor Lorenz, on the spot in Charlottesville:

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Miss Lorenz writes (Translating her tweets into text)

Here's the full video of the car ramming into protesters. It's toward the end of the stream [Reportedly at 65:50.]

The video cuts off at the end b/c some asshole came over and punched me in the face and kicked my phone for recording (I said I was press)

I'm filing a charge against the guy for punching me but it's slammed at the police station right now so prob nothing will happen ??????

In the meantime the police are asking private citizens with video of the car to share them with authorities. They have arrested the driver

The driver was taken into police custody right after the incident. Police say the car was covered in dents prior and apparently hit by a bat

If you watch the earlier part of my stream you can see anti-right wing chasing after a Lexus and throwing rocks, bottles, a shoe

This car was not the one that mowed people down. That was a differ grey car

Anyway several police officers at the station here think the guy running people down wasn't malicious . They said t he driver was scared

. They said t His car was being swarmed by protesters and some of them were getting violent (like the guy who punched me/threw me down)

https://www.facebook.com/TheHill/videos/10155164288944087/That being the case, it's possible that a jury will find he acted in self defense. In 2016, Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) responded to a report of rioters surrounding and attacking cars by tweeting "Run them down".

In spite of the fact that he's a law professor who heads an internet media empire, and has 82,000 followers on Twitter, his Twitter account was instantly suspended, and only restored on condition that he delete that Tweet, pictured and memed above.

But he wasn't wrong—I did a whole column about it, which I'll just quote part of:

So if this guy, whoever he is, was surrounded by rioters with bats, this may have been a reasonable, or at least excusable response. Charlottesville police don't think so, and are calling it "premeditated":

Charlottesville police chief says violence was "premeditated," suspect is in custody https://t.co/rtTBkVpHdc — NBC News (@NBCNews) August 12, 2017

That sounds unlikely—assuming the driver isn't a Muslim—and it's worth noting the police are always slow to admit that any justifiable homicide not committed by a police officer is in fact justifiable. We'll have to wait and see.