There were protesters Quietly Gathered near a Hollywood cemetery where they listened to the speakers before the start of the march. There were about 300 people in the crowd, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
But when the group reached Sunset Boulevard, a blue pick-up truck “maneuvered through the crowd and got into a brawl,” the LAPD said in a statement posted on Twitter.
“When the driver tried to flee the situation, he struck a protester standing in the street,” the statement added.
More than six months after she was shot dead while running a police warrant, protesters gathered in various U.S. cities after a physical jury refused to charge three officers with the murder of Brona Taylor. Only one of the three officers involved was accused of endangering First-Degree Wonon for the risk to Taylor’s neighbors.
In a video of the Sunset Boulevard incident posted on social media, the vehicle was quickly spotted from the scene as people gathered around the injured protester for help. A CNN crew was at the scene and saw the Los Angeles Fire Department’s fire truck and ambulance arrive immediately after the incident.
According to police, the injured man was shifted to a local hospital with minor injuries.
It is not clear if the vehicle was initially parked in the crowd as protesters gathered around it as the driver tried to go down Sunset Boulevard.
Police say that soon after the incident, “a white Prius tried to drive around a similar protest and there was a” fight with the crowd. “
In an aerial video captured by CNN affiliate KCAL / KCBS, the car stopped momentarily, and protesters began hitting it before it descended the street. Behind him came a black pick-up truck, which, according to the LAPD, was leading a protest, and which had “pinned the White Prius”, forcing it to come. At one stop.
The driver of the Prius tried to flee the area and overturned in a lush green Mustang behind him. The vehicle was also taking part in the protest, police said. The drivers of the black pick-up truck and Mustang tried to pull Prius’ driver out of the car, but the driver managed to escape, a police statement said. Officers detained the driver a few blocks away.
All the victims and drivers have been identified and an investigation into both incidents is underway, according to police. Police have not released their identities to the public.
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