A Brief History of Vehicular Violence

Weird Little Guys

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Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Last week, we talked about one particular incident of vehicular violence on protesters. But where does the tactic come from? Who is doing it? And why?

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0:04.2	In 2012, 16-year-old Brian Herrera was gunned down in broad daylight on his way to do homework.
0:11.4	No suspects.
0:12.5	No witnesses.
0:13.5	No justice.
0:14.5	I would ask my husband, do you want me to stop?
0:17.0	He was like, no.
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0:34.2	I'm Robert Evans, and on my show Behind the Bastards this week, we have one of our
0:38.5	worst subjects ever, David Byrd, founder of the Children of God cult, who we'll be talking
0:44.0	about with special guest Ed Helms. He's not just like a weird religious cult leader. He was
0:49.2	like fusing a bunch of hippie ideology in with this kind of like evangelical Christianity
0:55.0	Pentecostal preaching in the mid-century is a very weird guy.
0:59.3	But yeah, I'll just get into it here.
1:00.7	Like nothing you just said makes sense.
1:02.3	That doesn't sense.
1:03.0	Right.
1:03.6	But that's the beauty of cults.
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