Overview
- Calor Madanescht says he intended to join the demonstration and followed an officer’s signal onto Veteran Avenue.
- Video shows the truck moving through a crowd before protesters swarmed it, with some smashing the windshield and jabbing inside with flagpoles.
- The driver says he was assaulted and displayed injuries including a bandaged hand, a cut on his ear, bruises and black eyes.
- LAPD took him into custody on suspicion of reckless driving, he was later released on his own recognizance, and the case remains under review.
- Accounts from people at the scene diverge, with one witness saying the driver was beaten while another questioned the claim that police allowed the truck onto the occupied street.