AP
updated on July 9, 2020 | 3:54 PM
Police in the Boston suburb of Newton have cited a man for driving his pickup truck through a group of young Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
The man, identified only as a 55-year-old Needham resident, was cited for operating a motor vehicle so as to endanger and failure to use care when starting a motor vehicle, police said.
Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller said the altercation, which was captured on video, happened Tuesday after a group of mostly school-age protesters demonstrated peacefully outside City Hall.
Fuller said the man verbally confronted the demonstrators as he left the city building, then drove his pick-up truck “aggressively toward the demonstrators” even though there was another exit available.
The mayor said no one was hurt. Organizers say 60 or so attended the rally, including young children.
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