Ugh.
Stupidity all the way around, and especially for the driver in what is most assuredly a “deadly weapon” in terms of assault. After a confrontation between Black Lives Matter protesters and counterdemonstrators, police ordered one of the latter to take his car and leave. The counterdemonstrator did — by driving right through the BLM crowd blocking the road. Immediately afterward, a rumor started spreading that the black Ford Taurus was actually an unmarked police car, a rumor that the NYPD tried to stamp out ASAP: 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.
