ICYMI: “Ben Lafer drove his SUV through a tiny assemblage of BLM protesters in Johnson City, Tennessee, then sped away — leaving behind a man with a concussion, brain bleed, two broken legs — will face no charges.”

He joked about doing it, then did it.https://t.co/Gx9tLzWh8Q

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) September 30, 2021

Jared Benjamin Lafer, who last September drove his SUV through a tiny assemblage of Black Lives Matter protesters in Johnson City, Tennessee, and then sped away — leaving behind a man with a concussion, brain bleed, and two broken legs — will face no charges.

On Monday, a Tennessee grand jury returned a “no true” bill — a declaration by jurors that there was not enough evidence to indict the 27-year-old even after a judge had reduced the charges against him from aggravated assault, a Class C felony, to reckless aggravated assault, a Class D felony. Among the materials that apparently left the grand jurors unmoved was cellphone video documenting Lafer rolling over the protester with his truck, narrowly missing the protester’s dog, and almost striking a second person who jumped out of the car’s unswerving path before it accelerated away from the scene.