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Los Angeles constabulary responded connected Sunday (January 11, 2026) aft idiosyncratic drove a U-Haul container motortruck down a thoroughfare crowded with marchers demonstrating successful enactment of the Iranian people, causing protesters to scramble retired of the mode and past tally aft the speeding conveyance to effort to onslaught the driver.
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The U-Haul truck, with a model and broadside mirrors shattered, was stopped respective blocks distant and surrounded by constabulary cars. ABC7 news chopper footage showed officers keeping the assemblage astatine bay arsenic demonstrators swarmed the truck, throwing punches astatine the operator and thrusting flagpoles done the driver’s broadside window.
The driver, a antheral who was not identified, was detained “pending further investigation,” constabulary said successful a connection connected Sunday (January 11, 2026) evening.
The constabulary connection said 1 idiosyncratic was deed by the motortruck but cipher was earnestly hurt. Two radical were evaluated by paramedics and some declined treatment, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
Several 100 people, immoderate waving the emblem of Iran, had gathered connected Sunday (January 11, 2026) day on Veteran Avenue successful LA’s Westwood neighbourhood to protestation against the Iranian theocracy. Police yet issued a dispersal order, and by 5 p.m. lone astir a 100 protesters were inactive successful the area, ABC7 reported.
Activists accidental a crackdown connected nationwide protests successful Iran has killed much than 530 people. Protesters flooded the streets successful Iran’s superior of Tehran and its second-largest metropolis again connected Sunday (January 11, 2026).
