Car drives into a crowd of Black Lives Matter in downtown New York

The incident took place on September 3 in Times Square. Several pedestrians and cyclists were injured. The driver of the car turned out to be a supporter of Donald Trump. The details are shared by the publication NPR.org.

On Thursday, September 3, the Black Lives Matter protest took place in Times Square, New York. Around XNUMX pm, a driver in a dark sedan drove the car into the crowd of protesters.

Several demonstrators recorded this moment on camera.

In one of the videos, a sedan driver honked several times before driving through a crowd of protesters. The video was posted on Twitter by a user with the nickname DataInput.

Minutes later, WNYC reporter Gwynne Hogan stated that the crowd looked "shocked" but "most people were able to jump out of the way."

Car drives through Black Lives Matter protesters, Times Square, New York City, 8:10 PM, Thursday, September 3, 2020#BlackLivesMatter #BLM #TimesSquare #NewYorkCity #NewYork #NYC #ny pic.twitter.com/G3mwAy3vGx

- DataInput (@datainput) September 4, 2020

According to one of the eyewitnesses, as a result of this incident, there are victims.

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However, this incident did not affect the mood of the people gathered in the square, so they continued the rally.

The crowd took to a protest after a video of the murder of African American Daniel Prude appeared on the Web. The man died in police custody after a bag was put on his head and kept pressed against the asphalt for several minutes.

The pond, suffering from mental illness, died a week later from suffocation.

This happened in March 2020, but the video is only now available to the public. The incident sparked another wave of Black Lives Matter protests across the country.

And on September 3, the mayor of Rochester ordered the immediate removal of seven officers involved in Pond's death.

The family of the deceased is demanding that the officers be fired and charged with murder.

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In New York City, a group of Black Lives Matter protesters and supporters of US President Donald Trump clashed with a group of protesters shouting the names of Daniel Proud and several other blacks killed by the police.

Despite a car driving through the crowd at Times Square, the march is continuing as planned. About 400 protesters are moving North on 8th Ave., they just passed 46th St. pic.twitter.com/OR2qgrYZ2B

- NYC Protest Updates 2020 (@protest_nyc) September 4, 2020

Hogan said the protesters "de-escalated the situation" between themselves and Trump supporters who came to the counter protest.

Recall that in July of this year SUV driver tried to drive through crowd of protesters as part of the Black Lives Matters campaign, took down several bicycles and went into hiding. The incident also took place in downtown New York.