“#BreakingNews an SUV just plowed through protesters on 42nd street in #manhattan Still assessing injuries if any. More on @NY1 #blacklivesmatter #nycprotest more on @NY1,” tweeted NY1 news reporter Ruschell Boone [@RuschellBoone] at 10:19pm New York Time.
The tactic was used in Charlottesville, and resulted in the death of a protester. SUVs driving into Black Lives Matter protesters is a thing that has been happening in mid-2020 throughout the United States. This is a domestic terrorism meme of sorts, and copycats seem to be copying one another.
While we don’t know who was driving this SUV, we do know there’s a clear pattern of extremist vehicle attacks targeting BLM protesters.
As I told @NPR the other week, this is increasingly a deliberate tactic (as we saw in Charlottesville, Richmond, etc): https://t.co/ajiRh9LVS6
— Amy Spitalnick (@amyspitalnick) July 8, 2020
It happened in Bloomington, Indiana, this week, at an anti-racism protest. Police still have not identified the attacker who drove an SUV through a group of protesters there on Monday, after the July 4th holiday weekend.
Here’s a closer look at the two people that were inside of the red SUV that drove through a group of protesters yesterday in Bloomington. If you recognize either of these people you were encouraged to reach out to Bloomington police. @WISH_TV pic.twitter.com/LpmJUxPwx3
— Sierra Hignite (@SierraHigniteTV) July 7, 2020
