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The trucker who was attacked after driving into a massive protest on the Interstate 35W bridge following the killing of George Floyd was charged Thursday with two criminal counts from the May 31 incident.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman's office charged 35-year-old Bogdan Vechirko of Otsego with threats of violence, a felony, and criminal vehicular operation, a gross misdemeanor, saying the driver admitted to investigators that he was "kind of in a hurry" and the investigation showed he sought to "scare" the protesters out of his path.
Vechirko drove onto the bridge as hundreds of pedestrians protested the death of Floyd, who had died six days earlier in the custody of Minneapolis Police. Vechirko said that he was returning from a fuel delivery in south Minneapolis and didn't mean to drive into the protest or aim to hurt anyone.