In the American city of Tacoma, Washington state, a police car rammed the crowd and ran over one of the spectators who had gathered to watch the street racing show. The Daily Mail reports.
As noted, on Saturday evening, January 23, the local police received a message that the intersection in one of the parts of the city was blocked by a crowd – about 100 people gathered there to watch the maneuvers demonstrated by street racers. Police officers arrived at the scene, intending to clear the intersection for “the safety of those gathered and people trying to walk along the street.”
However, the audience surrounded the police car that had come to the call and, according to the police officer who was driving, they tried to break the windows in the car. As the police officer noted, he was worried about his safety, so he decided to get out of the encirclement by crashing into the crowd. According to him, the car “hit one of the men and possibly hurt a few more people.”
At the same time, the footage taken by eyewitnesses shows that a police car hit at least five people, while running over one of the men. After that, the victim was taken to a local hospital, the nature and severity of his injuries were not reported. Official information about other victims is not provided at the moment either.
According to the Daily Mail, after the incident, protesters began to gather at the scene.