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Nevilledog

(50,676 posts)
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 01:05 PM Sep 2020

Car accelerates through BLM protesters in Times Square, who had gathered to honor Daniel Prude.




Car accelerates through Black Lives Matter protesters in Times Square, who had gathered to honor Daniel Prude

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/car-drives-through-black-lives-matter-protesters-times-square-daniel-prude/

Dramatic cellphone video captured a car accelerating into a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in New York City's Times Square Thursday night. No one was seriously injured, and police are searching for the driver.

The demonstrators had gathered to protest the death of Daniel Prude, who died days after a controversial arrest by Rochester police officers. Prude died in March, but disturbing body camera footage of the incident was released by his family on Wednesday. The video showed officers placing a "spit hood" over Prude's head, then pressing his head into the ground while he lay on the street naked and handcuffed.

Protest erupted nationwide and a day after the video's release, seven officers involved in Prude's death were suspended.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Times Square Thursday night to call for justice in the case. However, the NYPD tells CBS New York that a standoff occurred between members of the Black Lives Matter march and those of a nearby pro-Trump rally. As the confrontation grew heated, police say an officer told one of the pro-Trump demonstrators to leave in his car, taking a specific route. Instead, that demonstrator allegedly drove directly through the Black Lives Matter march.

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Car accelerates through BLM protesters in Times Square, who had gathered to honor Daniel Prude. (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2020 OP
Little cowards. vehicular violence. Get out the damn car and fight like a man Walleye Sep 2020 #1
Is this the same incident/vehicle that witnesses said contained cops? And the tag... ret5hd Sep 2020 #2
Yes. Nevilledog Sep 2020 #4
Remember when ISIS called for its sympathizers to use vehicles as terrorist weapons? Midnight Writer Sep 2020 #3
I was thinking about that too Cirque du So-What Sep 2020 #5
Not advocating, just speculating and wondering hvn_nbr_2 Sep 2020 #6
homemade spike strips? Or (one of my favorites)... ret5hd Sep 2020 #7

ret5hd

(20,433 posts)
2. Is this the same incident/vehicle that witnesses said contained cops? And the tag...
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 01:22 PM
Sep 2020

traced back to a police vehicle?

hvn_nbr_2

(6,481 posts)
6. Not advocating, just speculating and wondering
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 02:28 PM
Sep 2020

When protestors started using leaf blowers and lacrosse sticks to throw tear gas canisters back, the term "asymmetric warfare" occurred to me. With all these repeated episodes of assault by motor vehicle occurring, I'm wondering what sort of asymmetric responses people are going to come up with.

ret5hd

(20,433 posts)
7. homemade spike strips? Or (one of my favorites)...
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:59 PM
Sep 2020

a big chunk of rancid butter thru an open window. That car would be in the scrapyard tomorrow.

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