One person was taken to the hospital after protesters surrounded a California Highway Patrol officer’s vehicle Monday following President Trump’s visit to Sacramento, according to reporters on the scene of the incident.
A video taken by an NBC Bay Area reporter on the scene showed a man crawling on the windshield of a patrol car seconds before the patrol car accelerated into the crowd of protesters. The man appears to roll over the roof of the car before being thrown violently to the pavement.
A spokeswoman for the Highway Patrol declined to comment, but said the agency was preparing a statement following the incident. The statement was not released yet on Monday night.
The demonstrators were assembled on Watt Avenue near Sacramento’s McClellan Airport, a staging area for state firefighting efforts. The president took part in a briefing about the state’s wildfires with Gov. Gavin Newsom for about an hour.
The confrontation occurred around 1 p.m., shortly after the president’s departure, according to a report by the Sacramento Bee.
Our camera was rolling when anti- Trump protestors surrounded a CHP patrol car. One person climbed on the hood and the officer drove forward. Two people were injured...one was taken to hospital. The crowd had gathered to protest the President as he visited Sacramento pic.twitter.com/5iZFjXGglz
— Jodi Hernandez (@JodiHernandezTV) September 14, 2020
Nora Mishanec is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: nora.mishanec@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @NMishanec
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