Los Angeles police responded Sunday after someone drove a U-Haul box truck down a street crowded with marchers demonstrating in support of the Iranian people, causing protesters to scramble out of the best way after which run after the speeding vehicle to attempt to attack the motive force.
The U-Haul truck, with its side mirrors shattered, was stopped several blocks away and surrounded by police cars. ABC7 news helicopter footage showed officers keeping the gang at bay as demonstrators swarmed the truck, throwing punches at the motive force and thrusting flagpoles through the motive force’s side window.
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The police department confirmed its officers were on the scene but didn’t immediately say if anyone was arrested.
Two people were evaluated by paramedics and each declined treatment, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
Several hundred people had gathered Sunday afternoon within the Westwood neighbourhood to protest against the Iranian theocracy. The LA police department eventually issued a dispersal order, and by 5 p.m. only a few hundred protesters were still on the scene, ABC7 reported.
Activists say a crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran has killed greater than 530 people. Protesters flooded the streets in Iran’s capital of Tehran and its second-largest city again Sunday.
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