The U-Haul truck, whose side mirrors were shattered, was stopped several blocks away and surrounded by police cars. ABC7 news helicopter footage showed officers holding the crowd at bay as protesters swarmed the truck, throwing punches at the driver and thrusting flagpoles through the driver’s side window.
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Police confirmed officers were at the scene but could not immediately say if anyone had been arrested.
Two people were examined by paramedics and both refused treatment, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
Several hundred people had gathered in the Westwood neighborhood on Sunday afternoon to protest against the Iranian theocracy. LA police eventually issued a dispersal order, and by 5 p.m., only about a hundred protesters remained on the scene, ABC7 reported.
Activists say the crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran has killed more than 530 people. Protesters again flooded the streets in Iran’s capital Tehran and its second-largest city on Sunday.
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