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George Floyd protests: NYPD vehicle rams crowd of demonstrators in Brooklyn

A NYPD rams into a crowd of protesters in Brooklyn on 30 May, 2020: Twitter/Pierre Garapon
A NYPD rams into a crowd of protesters in Brooklyn on 30 May, 2020: Twitter/Pierre Garapon

A New York City Police Department (NYPD) vehicle drove into a crowd of protesters in Brooklyn on Saturday, a video posted on social media has shown.

The incident came on a third day of protests in New York, triggered by the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis after an officer knelt on his neck.

In a video posted on Twitter, the NYPD car is seen suddenly accelerating into a group of people, who had set up a barricade in front of it.

It is unclear whether anyone was injured as a result.

The footage first shows protesters throwing objects such as a traffic cone at a stationary police vehicle, before it rams through the barricade and knocks people over.

Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, told local news channel NY1 that the video was “troubling”, but added that the situation would not have occurred “if those protesters had just gotten out of the way”.

Additional reporting from AP

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