Running Over Protesters Is a Tactic Ripped From Terrorist Playbooks

Across the United States, police are treating their vehicles as weapons against protesters

Isabela Dias
GEN
Published in
3 min readJun 5, 2020

--

Police cars driving into protesters in Brooklyn on May 30. Photo: @pgarapon/Instagram

On Sunday, an LAPD officer in an SUV stepped on the gas during a peaceful protest and struck and injured a man at a crossroads; the day before, two police cars plunged into a crowd in Prospect…

--

--

Isabela Dias
GEN
Writer for

Multilingual reporter covering immigration, human rights, and gender issues. Words in The Washington Post, The Nation, Slate, Texas Monthly, and elsewhere.