A person drove a pickup truck through a crowd of protesters in Buffalo, New York, Wednesday night during a demonstration prompted by a grand jury declining to indict police officers for killing Breonna Taylor.
Video shared on social media of the incident showed the driver approaching protesters gathered in the street and striking at least one person who was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
Graphic footage captured the collision, accompanied by a loud crash, followed by several people shouting and then chasing after the truck as its driver sped away.
The Buffalo News identified the victim as Karen Huffman, 59, a board member of a group that organizes bike rides in the region, and said that she suffered a fractured shoulder and possibly a fractured wrist.
Joanna Gollnau, 25, of Buffalo, has been charged with related counts of felony reckless endangerment and reckless driving, the Buffalo Police Department announced Friday after this article was first published.
Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency room technician, was shot and killed inside her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, by law enforcement officers executing a search warrant there early on March 13.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced Wednesday afternoon that a grand jury empaneled to consider the case had failed to return indictments charging any of the officers with Taylor’s death.
Protests soon erupted in cities throughout the country, and officers with the Louisville Police Department were shot within hours amid the unrest. Both are expected to survive and a suspect was arrested.
• Andrew Blake can be reached at ablake@washingtontimes.com.
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