
Black SUV running down a protester in Minneapolis (screengrab)
On Thursday, at a protest in Denver, Colorado against the police killing of George Floyd, the driver of a black SUV tried to run down one of the demonstrators, in an incident captured on video.
Nobody appears to have been killed. However, horrified commenters on social media compared the incident to the vehicle-ramming attack in Charlottesville, where a neo-Nazi drove a car into a crowd and killed counterprotester Heather Heyer.
In response to Heather Heyer’s murder in Charlottesville, six states introduced bills to legalize running vehicles… https://t.co/ZOS6WgDmpJ— elle hardy (@elle hardy)1590717149.0
@bellers03 This was almost another Heather Heyer and people in the comments are defending the driver, something is… https://t.co/PVKuuRU8NP— ItsAlanzo (@ItsAlanzo)1590716578.0
@pete_forester @RedLobsterBoss @carlyforrnia @CoachCoachos @bellers03 everyone also seems to have forgotten about C… https://t.co/cCNixbGXF2— christina (@christina)1590716956.0