Video posted to social media over the weekend shows a red pickup truck plowing through a crowd of protesters in Oklahoma.
Mike Collier, the chief meteorologist at KJRH in Tulsa, posted a short video clip Sunday of the truck driving through the crowd while towing what appears to be a horse trailer. The protesters were on Interstate 244 in Tulsa.
The truck briefly stops as protesters hurl objects at the vehicle, bang on its windows, and scream at the driver.
An Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokeswoman told the Tulsa World that two people suffered minor injuries and that local police are investigating the incident.
The driver eventually stopped and spoke with police who responded to the scene.
“They spoke to him at the scene, and there was an agreement to meet away from the location to talk to him to get him away from that volatile situation,” the police spokeswoman said. “We wouldn’t have even been able to talk to him there.”
A photographer for the Tulsa World reported seeing the driver of the truck placing a handgun on the dashboard of the vehicle at one point for the protesters to see.
“We let the silver car in front of them go because she had an emergency she had to get to, so we let her go,” one protester said.
The pickup driver “took the liberty to continue going as bystanders stood in front of him. He stopped, and then, as he inched in front of people and kept bumping people, the people got upset and hit his car. But then, he put his gun on the dashboard of his car and told everyone, ‘You get out of my way.’ And then, he proceeded to drive through people and hit people,” he continued.
Warning: Graphic images/language. Truck driving through protestors on I-244. pic.twitter.com/vvDLU0hbPk
— Mike Collier (@MikeCollierWX) June 1, 2020
