Car on anti-racist protesters in NY

(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, DEC 12 - A car crashed on a group of protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement in New York: several people were injured and two women, the driver of the car and the daughter who accompanied him, were arrested. From initial information, the injured would be at least six. The incident took place in Manhattan in the MurrayHill neighborhood, in the East Side of Midtown, where about fifty people of the Black LivesMatter movement were protesting. From a first reconstruction, not yet confirmed by the police, a group of demonstrators would have approached the car that at a certain point hit them, it is not yet known whether accidentally or voluntarily. Driving the car was a 52-year-old woman who was questioned on the spot by the police after her arrest. On board was the 29-year-old daughter, who was also arrested. According to the witnesses' account, the woman driving accelerated by aiming at the demonstrators blocking traffic.