Tennessee Highway Patrol debunks viral claims protester was struck by trooper vehicle

Dashcam video shows a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper navigating a protester successful Memphis, Tennessee, who appeared to play possum successful beforehand of the patrol car, starring the bureau to swat down viral claims the antheral was really hit.

Video posted to societal media by the Tennessee Highway Patrol shows the trooper trying to enactment his mode astir a radical of protesters. A antheral who appeared to beryllium 1 of the protesters walked into framework from down a achromatic SUV.

The man, wearing a agleam orangish operation vest and holding a handheld radio, raised his hands and stepped successful beforehand of the trooper.

The trooper tin beryllium heard connected camera shouting, "Move! Get retired of my way! Get retired of my way! Move!"

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Tennessee Highway Patrol released dashcam video showing a protester grabbing a patrol car and falling, disputing viral claims helium was struck during a Memphis protest. (Tennessee Highway Patrol)

Instead, the protester shook his caput and raised his scale digit arsenic if signaling the trooper to "hold on."

The protester past grabbed the patrol vehicle’s propulsion bars and fell backward, appearing to enactment arsenic if helium had been deed by the trooper’s vehicle.

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The protester dramatically fell backwards portion holding connected to the patrol car's propulsion bar.  (Tennessee Highway Patrol)

He past pulled himself up, raised his scale digit astatine the trooper erstwhile more, and walked backmost to his vehicle.

The video circulated connected societal media with claims the antheral was deed by a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper, claims the bureau called false.

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The protester popped close backmost up aft falling backwards. (Tennessee Highway Patrol)

"We respect and support the close of radical to protestation peacefully," the Tennessee Highway Patrol said. "That right, however, does not see entering progressive roadways oregon placing themselves successful danger.

"In this case, video intelligibly shows the idiosyncratic holding onto the beforehand of the trooper’s vehicle, lying down, past lasting backmost up afterward and leaving the country nether his ain power," the connection continued. "At nary constituent does the video amusement the idiosyncratic being tally implicit oregon injured, contempt the narratives circulating connected societal media."

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The bureau added that its precedence is nationalist information for protesters, motorists and troopers.

"When idiosyncratic enters the roadway, it creates a superior and contiguous risk, and troopers are trained to respond to forestall injuries oregon worse outcomes," the bureau added.