VIDEO. New York motorist crashes into protesters

She accelerates, knocks down a pedestrian, then cyclists at full speed.

At the intersection of 39th Street and 3rd Avenue in New York City, a woman driving a dark BMW walked straight into the procession of a Black Lives Matter protest.

Witnesses assured that the driver had first slowed down, blocked by several people, before accelerating deliberately.

Nyce, a protester injured in the incident, saw "the car come at full speed" before being struck.

According to the police, it is "too early to say whether (it was) an intentional act or an accident".

Several injured were transported to different hospitals in the metropolis, New York police said.

“The injuries do not appear to be life-threatening” for the victims, the spokesperson said.

The driver remained on the scene after the incident and was arrested without difficulty by the police who were securing the demonstration.

The 52-year-old driver was in police custody Friday night for questioning.

Another woman was arrested for trying to prevent emergency services from helping one of the crash victims.

In recent months in the United States, the numerous demonstrations for the Black Lives Matter movement to denounce police violence or within the framework of the presidential election, have given rise to several similar incidents.