Man detained after driving truck through anti-Iran protest in Los Angeles

Los Angeles constabulary respond aft a motortruck drives down a thoroughfare filled with demonstrators marching successful enactment of the Iranian people.

A motortruck operator has been detained successful Los Angeles, California, aft speeding down a thoroughfare filled with radical demonstrating successful enactment of protesters successful Iran.

Marchers were forced to scramble retired of the mode arsenic a U-Haul container motortruck drove down a crowded roadworthy during the protestation connected Sunday. One idiosyncratic was hit, but cipher was earnestly hurt, section constabulary said successful a statement.

The motortruck was stopped respective blocks distant and surrounded by constabulary cars. Footage from a section quality chopper showed officers trying to halt demonstrators from attacking the driver, aft they had raced to drawback up with his vehicle.

Police said the driver, who has not been identified, was detained “pending further investigation”.

The Los Angeles Fire Department said 2 radical were evaluated by paramedics pursuing the incident, with some declining immoderate further treatment.

A immense assemblage of demonstrators had earlier gathered on Veteran Avenue successful the Westwood neighbourhood of Los Angeles, marching successful enactment of antigovernment protesters successful Iran.

The United States West Coast metropolis is location to the largest Iranian assemblage extracurricular of Iran.

Police initially allowed the protestation to instrumentality spot earlier yet issuing a dispersal order. Only astir 100 protesters were inactive successful the country by aboriginal evening, according to section media.

The protests successful Iran began connected December 28, erstwhile merchants astatine Tehran’s Grand Bazaar closed their shops implicit the Iranian rial’s plummeting value. They person evolved from economic grievances into broader antigovernment demonstrations and are the largest successful Iran since the 2022-23 question spurred by the custodial decease of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old pistillate who had been arrested for allegedly violating the strict formal codification for women.

Demonstrations supporting Iranian protesters person taken spot successful cities crossed the world, including London, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, and Istanbul.

State media reported connected Sunday that 109 information unit person been killed during the latest unrest. Authorities person not confirmed the fig of demonstrators who person mislaid their lives, but absorption activists based extracurricular the state accidental the decease toll is higher and includes hundreds of protesters.