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The incident occurred on Friday afternoon local time, according to New York City Police and local media.
There was a woman in the driver’s seat of the BMW sedan. The New York City Police Department said he was taken into custody for questioning by police.
Police said the incident took place shortly after 4 p.m. at the intersection of Thirty Ninth Street and Third Avenue in the Mary Hill residential area adjacent to Midtown Manhattan.
None of the injured were seriously injured and the driver was at the scene, they said. However, authorities did not immediately provide further details.
According to local media reports, the car ran over six people. But it was not immediately clear how many were taken to the hospital, Reuters reported.
According to some comments on social media, the car was stopped before it could enter the crowd and the protesters surrounded it.
However, Reuters reported that these comments could not be confirmed immediately.
Police and various local media reported that the protest was organized by the anti-apartheid group Black Lives Matter.
A Reuters photographer present at the scene and at least one media outlet reported that the protest rally was organized in solidarity with the hunger strike of nine undocumented immigrants in a New Jersey prison under the custody of the Immigration and Control Service. United States Customs.
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