[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Jurors refused to charge Jared Benjamin Lafer for running over a white BLM protester, Jonathan Bowers, in September 2020
- Lafer was originally charged for aggravated assault, a Class C felony, before it was changed to a reckless aggravated assault, a class D felony in May
- Footage shows Bowers being hit and run over in Johnson City, Tennessee
- Lafer is seen heading straight at the protester without breaking, knocking him to the ground before driving over him and leaving the scene
- By the time of his arrest, Lafer had joke about the incident on Facebook
- Lafer, released on $20,000 bond, is a real estate agent from North Carolina
- His attorney said 'his wife and his three young kids' were all in the car with him
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