Cops Rammed by Car in New York amid Anti-Police-Brutality Unrest in US (+Video)
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Multiple videos appeared online showing cars ploughing through a crowd of police officers in New York.
A clip circulating on social media shows a black car ramming a police officer as he was standing at a city crosswalk.
The vehicle appears to speed up just before it hits the man. The victim then lies motionless on the ground, before being picked up by a police van, RT reported.
Two NYPD patrol cars were earlier filmed ramming a group of protesters who were blocking a road. A similar incident was recorded in the city of Buffalo, New York State, where a car plowed through a group of police officers.
The moment of the attempted ramming was caught in harrowing footage shared online.
As heated and sometimes violent protesters made their way through New York City on Monday night, similar demonstrations also broke out upstate in Buffalo. But as police cleared protesters from an intersection around the city’s E District police station, an SUV was filmed as it rammed through the group of officers, who quickly scattered, and sped away down the road.
Major US cities have become centers of protest and street battles, following a police killing of an unarmed black man.