WATCH: Driver Arrested After Plowing Through Newport Beach Protesters
No one appeared to be injured.
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A Mini Cooper bearing Arizona license plates plowed through a crowd of peaceful protesters in Newport Beach, California, on Wednesday afternoon, and the driver has been arrested. No one appeared to be injured, according to Fox 11. Newport Beach Police Department spokeswoman Heather Rangel told the Los Angeles Times the driver was cooperating with the investigation and that the incident did not appear to be deliberate. The demonstrators had gathered to protest police brutality in the wake of the alleged murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
Breaking: A car just tried to run down Peaceful Protesters in Newport Beach! @Newzysteph and photographer Justin O’Brien caught it all! CRAZY! @FOXLA @GDLA pic.twitter.com/ppsTOR66NR
— Hayley Herst (@HayleyHerst) June 3, 2020
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