Car drives through BLM protesters in NYC, suspect in custody

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A female driver was taken into custody after she struck multiple people with her vehicle during a Black Lives Matter protest in Manhattan on Friday afternoon, the NYPD said.

Around 40 to 50 Black Lives Matter protesters were gathered at the intersection of East 39th Street and 3rd Avenue around 4:08 p.m. on Friday when a vehicle struck “multiple” pedestrians, police said.

The female driver stayed at the scene and has been taken into custody, the NYPD said. Police didn’t immediately say how many pedestrians were hit, but said all of the injuries the pedestrians suffered were non-life threatening.

A car plowed into pedestrians at a BLM protest against ICE detentions in Midtown Manhattan on Friday afternoon — “tossing people into the air” in a horrifying incident caught on video, witnesses and police said.

The shocking footage shows the vehicle stopped at 39th Street and Third Avenue just after 4 p.m. with protesters in front of the car — seconds before its female driver floors it, plowing into the crowd.

One protester can be seen rolling up onto the car’s hood and into the windshield before tumbling to the pavement.

A 52-year-old woman from Queens was driving her 29-year-old daughter in the car when the incident occurred, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

The female driver was stopped a block or so away by a traffic scooter cop after hitting the pedestrians, sources said. Apolloa said cops detained two people who chased after her.

The unidentified driver told cops she was surrounded by protesters marching illegally against traffic and that they started banging on her car, sources said.

She stepped on the gas to get away from them and that’s when she struck people in the intersection, sources said.