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An arrest was made in Culpeper, Virginia after an SUV drove through a crowd following a “No Kings” demonstration, police said.
Joseph R. Checklick Jr. was arrested after police said he intentionally drove into protesters in Culpeper, Virginia on June 14.
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NBC Los Angeles on MSN1 person injured after car rams into ‘No Kings' protesters in RiversideOne woman was taken to a hospital with significant injuries after a car drove into a large of protesters gathered in Riverside Saturday night.
CULPEPER, Va. ( DC News Now) — Virginia police said they arrested a man who drove his SUV through a “No Kings” protest Saturday, hitting at least one person. The Culpeper Police Department (CPD) said officers stopped Joseph R. Checklick Jr., 21, of Culpeper, after they saw him drive recklessly through the group.
Organizers of the “No Kings” demonstrations said millions had marched in hundreds of events. In Oregon, tens of thousands of people gathered in downtown Portland for two large protests -- one that began in Tom McCall Waterfront Park and the other at the Oregon Convention Center.
Those millions included an estimated 200,000 people in Los Angeles, 100,000 in Philadelphia, 70,000 in Seattle and over 50,000 in New York.
“ No Kings Day of Defiance” protests drew several thousand people around the Inland Empire throughout the day and into the night. At one point on Saturday evening, several hundred protesters present during the Riverside crash had merged with people who attended a large anti-ICE protest, which began earlier that day.
Motorists in two cities across the nation have struck “No Kings” protesters, according to multiple reports. Police detained two motorists whom they say intentionally drove into crowds of protesters in San Francisco, California and Culpeper, Virginia. There is no reason to believe the two incidents are connected.