LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police responded Sunday after any person drove a U-Haul field truck down a avenue 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 automobile to attempt to assault the motive force.
The U-Haul truck, with a window and aspect mirrors shattered, was stopped a number of blocks away and surrounded by police automobiles. ABC7 information helicopter footage confirmed officers protecting the group at bay as demonstrators swarmed the truck, throwing punches on the driver and thrusting flagpoles by the motive force’s aspect window.
The motive force, a person who was not recognized, was detained “pending additional investigation,” police mentioned in an announcement Sunday night.
The police assertion mentioned one particular person was hit by the truck however no one was severely harm. Two folks have been evaluated by paramedics and each declined remedy, the Los Angeles Hearth Division mentioned.
A number of hundred folks, some waving the flag of Iran, had gathered Sunday afternoon alongside Veteran Avenue in LA’s Westwood neighborhood to protest towards the Iranian theocracy. Police ultimately issued a dispersal order, and by 5 p.m. solely a few hundred protesters have been nonetheless within the space, 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.