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video: A bystander captures the moment a car slams into a crowd at a
white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. USA TODAY Videos
and interviews from the …
Graphic video: A bystander captures the moment a car slams into a
crowd at a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia.
USA TODAY
Videos and interviews from the scene of Saturday’s violent car crash into Charlottesville protesters painted a chaotic picture of the moments after the incident.
Matt
Korbon, a 22-year-old University of Virginia student, said several
hundred counter-protesters were marching when “suddenly there was just
this tire screeching sound.” A silver sedan smashed into another car,
then backed up, barreling through “a sea of people.”
Brennan
Gilmore, a former staffer for gubernatorial candidate Tom Perriello
filmed the panic at Water and 4th Streets in downtown Charlottesville.
His 45-second cell-phone video captured the gray Dodge Charger with Ohio
plates racing toward the crowd — hitting it, then reversing away with a
damaged windshield and front end.
The video
captures screaming and the shocked crowd as at least nine people were
injured. Those nearby can be heard shouting “medic!” as the crowd flees
to get clear of the car and eventually chase it down.
Gilmore called the crash “deliberate terrorism” and said he shared the video with police and media.
Staunton News Herald photographer Jeremiah Knupp witnessed the crash from a nearby parking garage as it happened.
“A
third car came down and impacted the two other vehicles, hitting some
of the protesters,” Knupp said. “I would guess it was going 30 miles per
hour.”
A
livestream video shot feet from the incident shows the violent crash
and bodies thrown from the impact. One person is thrown over the top of a
second vehicle. The crowd quickly sought to help the injured while
others chased the car the rammed them.
“Oh my god …
people are badly hurt, we need paramedics right now,” Jon Ziegler, the
man filming the live stream narrated on his feed.
Contributing: Associated Press
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