What government official plowed his car through a crowd?

[lonestarnot]

What was that I saw only for a second?

[rwheeler31]

1. ?

[lonestarnot]

2. Want to know... it didn't look good.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. When did this happen/did you see it?

I've heard no such thing.

[lonestarnot]

5. CNN. And only saw a second and heard government official plows through crowd.

[low_phreaq]

4. CNN Newsroom had a teaser video clip about this

but I had to go before the actual story came on. I've been trying to search for the story but haven't found anything.

[lonestarnot]

6. It's like it never existed. Maybe they made it up. Still looking.

[lonestarnot]

7. Maybe KKKarl got mad.

[lonestarnot]

8. Well anyone know yet?

[Bluebear]

12. Argentina

[lonestarnot]

9. kick

:kick:

[immoderate]

10. Kick

--IMM

[Xithras]

11. It was in Argentina

There's a video of it posted on LiveLeak. A bunch of protesters surrounded the SUV of some former government minister. The protesters started banging on the car, the guy panicked, and he floored it. Ran over 17 people.

[lonestarnot]

13. OMG Terrible. Thank you for posting the answer.

It was a 24 hour mystery. :toast:

[Xithras]

14. I'm really surprised it didn't get answered quicker.

The video has been all over the Internet this weekend. It was even front page on YouTube briefly (they keep deleting it because their TOS prohibits posting videos of people being injured or killed). It's available on Break, Liveleak, and a bunch of the other shock video sites at the moment.

[low_phreaq]

15. From the CNN NEWSROOM transcript

CNN NEWSROOM

Aired August 19, 2007 - 22:00 ET

<snip>

And unbelievable pictures. A government official runs over a crowd people with his car. What was he thinking? You're in the CNN NEWSROOM.

<snip>

HARRIS: And coming up, what kind of person runs down a group of people with their car? In this case, a government minister. Our "You've Got to Be Kidding" segment is still ahead.

<snip>

HARRIS: So a shocking piece of video to show you now. Everyone who saw it here said, "Are you kidding?"

OK. So look at this scene. It's tense. This is Argentina, and an angry crowd of protesters surrounding a car driven by the country's interior minister. They won't let him leave. They're chanting and pounding on the car. Then the driver said, "Enough!" and he guns it.

Take a look here. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! So the car plows into the crowd. People are down. The best report we found said 17 people were run down and a few had to go to the hospital. Amazingly, no one was killed. The minister was arrested and remains in jail tonight. The video popped up on that YouTube that the kids are crazy about, and officials there have some 'splaining to do.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/19/cnr.04.html