A 62-year-old woman has been charged with multiple offenses, including four counts of assault by auto, after driving through a crowd of anti-ICE protesters in Fairview, New Jersey on Saturday.
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The incident took place as dozens of protesters marched through an intersection outside the Noches De Colombia restaurant. It was captured on video and posted to social media.
The video shows the woman, identified by police as Linda Roglen, slowly approaching the intersection in front of the restaurant when a stream of protesters crosses through the crosswalk.
One man approaches her vehicle and appears to motion for her to stop. He seemingly says or does something, then turns back to the line of protesters. But Roglen lurches forward and clips his foot in the process, knocking him to the ground.
It is at this stage that several protesters, one wearing a Puerto Rican flag as a cape, begin surrounding her