Los Angeles police responded Sunday after any person drove a U-Haul field truck down a road crowded with marchers demonstrating in assist of the Iranian folks, inflicting protesters to scramble out of the way in which after which run after the rushing car to attempt to assault the motive force.
The U-Haul truck, with its aspect mirrors shattered, was stopped a number of blocks away and surrounded by police vehicles. ABC7 information helicopter footage confirmed officers retaining the gang at bay as demonstrators swarmed the truck, throwing punches on the driver and thrusting flagpoles by the motive force’s aspect window.
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The police division confirmed its officers have been on the scene however didn’t instantly say if anybody was arrested.
Two folks have been evaluated by paramedics and each declined remedy, the Los Angeles Hearth Division stated.
A number of hundred folks had gathered Sunday afternoon within the Westwood neighbourhood to protest in opposition to the Iranian theocracy. The LA police division finally issued a dispersal order, and by 5 p.m. solely a couple of hundred protesters have been nonetheless on the scene, ABC7 reported.
Activists say a crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran has killed greater than 530 folks. Protesters flooded the streets in Iran’s capital of Tehran and its second-largest metropolis once more Sunday.
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