Why Are Protesters Getting Run Over?

Why Are Protesters Getting Run Over?
(Nicole Hester/Ann Arbor News via AP)

Hundreds of protesters who occupied a highway in Minneapolis on Sunday faced a harrowing moment when a tanker truck came barreling toward them. In a widely shared video of the incident, the crowd of people on I-35 parts like the river as they realize that the truck wouldn’t be stopping.

On Tuesday afternoon, the driver of that truck was released from jail. A full investigation is still pending, but Minnesota authorities don’t believe that he was trying to actively terrorize the protesters — he just panicked.

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