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Video shows tanker truck barrel toward Minneapolis protesters

By
Tamar Lapin
Published May 31, 2020
Updated June 1, 2020, 11:14 a.m. ET

A tanker truck barreled into a crowd of protesters peacefully demonstrating on a shut-down interstate in Minneapolis on Sunday in response to the death of George Floyd.

Shocking video showed a sea of marchers on the I-35W bridge running to get out of the way as the semi-trailer zoomed toward them before coming to a stop on the roadway.

The protesters can then be seen surrounding the truck and opening the door. Police also converged on the vehicle with guns drawn, the Star Tribune reported.

A tanker truck drives into thousands of protesters marching on 35W north bound highway in Minneapolis.
A tanker truck drives into thousands of protesters marching on 35W north bound highway in Minneapolis.REUTERS

“He wasn’t stopping. He was beeping loudly and driving into a crowd of people,” Drew Valle, a special education teacher, told the newspaper.

“That’s the same kind of malice that brought us here,” Valle added. “It’s a callous disregard for someone’s humanity.”

The Minnesota Department of Public Safety said the driver was arrested and taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Authorities later identified the man as Bogdan Vechirko, according to Fox 9.

It didn’t appear any protesters were hit by the truck.

“Very disturbing actions by a truck driver on I-35W, inciting a crowd of peaceful demonstrators,” the agency tweeted.