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NY – One seriously injured, six minor, minor protesters hospitalized – this is the first issue of what the NYPD calls “premeditated assault,” probably with a racist background. Two women, the 52-year-old mother and 29-year-old daughter, were arrested and questioned by detectives from the New York Police Department. One was driving, the other was next to him in the vehicle that hit a group of protesters linked to the anti-racist movement Black Lives Matter. The attack took place in the East Side neighborhood of Mid-Manhattan, at the intersection of 39th Street and Third Avenue, shortly after 4 pm local time (10 pm Italian time).
“The car pounced on us invading the bike lane, I only had time to jump to the side to avoid it, six of my companions did not make it,” said a young black man interviewed by the local television station. Ny1. With him were a few dozen protesters. The reason for his protest: to stand in solidarity with the hunger strike that has as its protagonists some undocumented immigrants detained at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement center of Bergen County, New Jersey.
United States, car hits Black Lives Matter protesters: seven injured
Seven injured, one of them in serious condition, the balance of the tragedy that occurred in the afternoon in New York, where a car ran over some protesters in Manhattan who were participating in a protest organized by the Black Lives Matter movement. The woman behind the wheel was arrested along with her daughter in the car.
Black Lives Matter demonstrations have invaded many cities across the United States to protest police violence against African Americans. It happened during the presidency of Barack Obama, particularly after the events in Ferguson, Missouri. Instead, the latest wave of protests spread in June this year after the assassination of George Floyd in Minneapolis in late May. Violent tensions with right-wing militias and white supremacist groups were not lacking. New York is one of the strongholds of the anti-racist movement.
