Black Lives Matter: Anti-Trump protester injured after jumping on police car in California
Two people have reportedly been injured after a police car drove through a group of anti-Trump protesters in California.
Two people have reportedly been injured after a police car drove through a group of anti-Trump protesters in California.
Multiple videos posted to social media show Black Lives Matter supporters in the middle of the road surrounding a California Highway Patrol car.
The group were protesting President Donald Trump’s visit to Sacramento on Monday.
One person wearing a red hat jumps on the hood of the car, which then speeds forward, sending the protester flying.
“Oh my God! Oh my God!” a woman screams.
Subsequent video shows paramedics arriving with a stretcher.
In Sacramento, CA outside a Trump event - somebody jumped on the hood of a police cruiser and they are now claiming that the police "ran him over"
— Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) September 14, 2020
Video here: https://t.co/9IJ1ktqh3A pic.twitter.com/tgGRFr0IoO
Our camera was rolling when anti- Trump protestors surrounded a CHP patrol car. One person climbed on the hood and the officer drove forward. Two people were injured...one was taken to hospital. The crowd had gathered to protest the President as he visited Sacramento pic.twitter.com/5iZFjXGglz
— Jodi Hernandez (@JodiHernandezTV) September 14, 2020
NBC News reporter Jodi Hernandez said two people were injured, with one taken to hospital.
“Trump came to Sacramento and cops ran over protesters. (Sacramento Police) WTF is this,” one Twitter user said.
Sacramento Police have not yet addressed the incident.
Conservatives on social media defended the police’s actions.
I Believe I Can Fly!! pic.twitter.com/0Spwq6wH7r
— Mad Liberals (@mad_liberals) September 14, 2020
“I really don’t think the cop did anything wrong here,” Brandon Darby from right-wing news site Breitbart said.
It comes after two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies were “ambushed” and shot in the head while sitting in their patrol car on Saturday night.
The 24-year-old male and 31-year-old female Transit Services Bureau officers are now in a stable condition after the unprovoked shooting in Compton, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said on Monday.
NEW: LASD & the families of the two ambushed deputies have given me permission to show this graphic photo of the moment after they were shot. Iâm told female deputy was shot through jaw, still radioed for help & applied tourniquet to male deputyâs wounds. Both stable now. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/6m06qec1v2
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 14, 2020
Gruesome images taken from security camera footage, released by police, show the female deputy and her partner soaked in blood as they wait for backup to arrive.
A GoFundMe established by the LA County Sheriff’s Department has raised more than $US150,000 ($A205,700).
“Both deputies will require multiple surgeries and have a long road to recovery ahead of them,” the organisers wrote.
Police have offered a $US100,000 ($A137,000) reward for information.