A video clip shows a man pulling a gun from his backpack after a verbal altercation with a protester on the Balboa Peninsula.
The worldwide civil unrest caused by George Floyd’s death — by suffocation, as one officer knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes — largely did not slide into violence in Newport Beach, where four demonstrations were planned around the city Wednesday.
A motorist, identified as Newport Beach resident Don Wallace, allegedly sped a white Mini Cooper through a group of protesters near Marina Park, grazing several without injury before being pulled over and arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. The car’s windshield was shattered when he was arrested, but it was unclear how it was damaged.Several Twitter users posted video of that incident as well, showing marchers screaming, scrambling, dropping signs and chasing the car.
A spokeswoman for the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday that the case was not with prosecutors yet.
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