The New York Police Department says it is trying to find a car that passed a group of Black Lives Matter protesters blocking an alley in Times Square on Thursday night.
In the video posted on social media, the car was pushed by the mob while the car was honking its horn while the spectators were screaming and honking their horns.
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(ટન daytonput)Car Drives by Black Lives Matter Opponents, Times Square, New York City, 8:10 p.m., Thursday, September 3, 2020#BlackLivesMatter # BLM # TimesSquare # New York City # New York #NYC # Anyone pic.twitter.com/G3mwAy3vGx
A video Posted On Twitter, a user named DataAnput showed a dark sedan in front of a crowd of people standing in front of a vehicle with a bicycle.
Gwyn Hogg, a WNYC reporter, tweeted that the crowd appeared to be “messing up” but that “most people were able to jump off the road.”
No one appears to be seriously injured. The NYPD said on Twitter that the car was not a police vehicle.
Protesters rallied after the suspension of seven police officers involved in the suffocating death of Daniel Prude. Prud, Black1, who was Black, died March 30, when he was stripped of life support, seven days after officers who had stripped him naked on the street put a belt around his head to stop him from spitting. And then he held it down for about two minutes until he stopped breathing.
A medical examiner described Prud’s death as a “cowboy” caused by “complications of ambiguity in a state of physical restraint” and came into the national spotlight this week when his family called for justice again.
Despite the incident with the car, the protesters continued their march on Thursday evening.
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(@NYPD News)An ongoing investigation into the incident involving a black Taurus sedan in Times Square is ongoing. This auto toe is not an NYPD vehicle. pic.twitter.com/kBGuXhFtP1
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