Car rams into crowd of BLM protestors gathered at New York’s Time Square

The demonstrators had gathered near the popular New York landmark to protest the custodial killing of African-American man Daniel Prude in Rochester earlier this year. The 41-year-old was arrested after he was caught running down a street naked.

Police body camera footage, released by Prude’s family on Wednesday, showed seven police officials placing a hood over his head to stop him from spitting, before holding him down to the ground until he ceased to breathe. Prude died a week later after he was taken off life support, in what a medical examiner described as a “homicide caused by complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint”, the Guardian reported.

The protestors had gathered near Times Square after seven police officials involved in Prude’s death were suspended. According to a report by CBS, a standoff had broken out between the BLM protestors and a group of Trump supporters from a rally close by.

When the confrontation grew heated, the police got involved and tried to diffuse the situation. One of the Trump supporters was asked to leave in his car, but instead he decided to ram into the crowd of BLM demonstrators, CBS reported.

After several observers claimed the car closely resembled an unmarked police vehicle, the NYPD issued a statement denying their involvement. “This auto is NOT an NYPD vehicle,” the police department tweeted on Thursday night.

Some pointed out the incident bore a striking resemblance to a similar one that had occurred during the Charlottesville ‘Unite the Right’ rally in 2017, when a counter-protestor, named Heather Heyer, was mowed down by a speeding vehicle.

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