Officials believe that an incident in which a man was killed and another seriously injured after a driver hit spectators at a Pride parade in South Florida on Saturday evening was an accident. But what followed the incident also speaks to our need as a community to *wait for the facts* before making incendiary statements (and incendiary headlines) which can make situations worse and possibly lead to more violence. I understand why Mayor Trantalis and other witnesses thought what they witnessed was an attack - and it speaks both to the climate we’re living in and to the violence of the Right recently that it was the first reaction to think it was an attack. The driver is gay and a member of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Fort Lauderdale and part of the community here - and what he told police was apparently true: when his turn was next in the parade, his foot became stuck between the gas and the break and he lost control of the vehicle, crashing through a fence and tragically killing one person (another member of the Gay men’s chorus), seriously wounding another and almost hitting Rep.