NEW YORK - Police are searching for the vehicle and the occupants who drove through a group of Black Lives Matters protesters and counterprotesters in Times Square.The incident was captured on video Thursday at about 8 p.m.
and shows the black Ford Taurus jerking through the crowd at 46th Street and Broadway its horn blaring as demonstrators scramble out of the way.
According to police, the car was earlier at a pro-Trump rally near Duffy Square. Officers had asked the driver to move the car through a route under the Marriot Hotel to avoid conflict with the protesters.
The driver ignored the suggestion and drove into the crowd. "We have a car travelling up 46th street stops at the light," NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea told FOX 5 NY.