The shocking video shows a demonstrator being hit by a car advancing on a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Rochester, New York – while the driver also covered a crowd showing pepper spray in an atmosphere of ambiguity during a week of police involvement. Daniel Prud.
Footage from early Saturday Shows opponents around a number of cars Police in riot gear stormed a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck. Police in riot gear stormed a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck.
The first car is seen moving slowly, as one of the protesters from the group is filmed jumping on top of it, while the others are banged on its hood.
Then the red car comes down – the driver accelerates a woman and splashes the crowd when she hits. It was not immediately clear if he was the same protester who jumped on the previous car.
“You can hear people screaming and corpses… you can hear cars hitting cars,” a 30-year-old Rochester native named Riley told Democrats and the Chronicle.
Donald Martel, 24, also told the paper that he was killed by what witnesses said.
At least one of the drivers called Rochester police to file a criminal misdemeanor complaint, a spokesman told the paper. But no one was reported to have hit the car, police said.
A mob gathered around the hit demonstrator, although it was not immediately clear how serious the injuries were.
Other footage, meanwhile, showed protesters Hiding under umbrellas Police fired tear gas and pepper spray as several explosions erupted on Saturday night, filling the air with thick smoke.
“F – what is that?” One man asks about the ongoing flash bangs, while the others cough from the smoke.
Alexis Schler said of the scenes in his video, “Absolutely F – King mad and unnecessary.”
Chester’s police chief, L’Aron Singlatory, defended his officers’ response to the protest on Sunday.
“Our response has been measured. We have shown restraint, ”he told a news conference.
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