Sheriff’s official Driver who tore through Yorba Linda crowd could have

The driver of a car that struck and seriously injured a man and woman in a Yorba Linda parking lot during a heated demonstration “could have chosen an alternate route that would have completely avoided all those people, ” a sheriff’s sergeant said Sunday. Tatiana Turner, 40, of Long Beach, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and attempted murder after the incident Saturday. She was attending the protest with Caravan for Justice, said Orange County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Carrie Braun. The organization is in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. The Caravan group, which planned Saturday’s event, describes itself as campaigning against police violence. They were met Saturday by counter-demonstrators carrying American flags as well as campaign banners supporting the re-election of President Donald Trump.“The victims, from what we can tell, it appears that they were part of the Trump supporters, ” Orange County Sheriff’s Sgt. Dennis Breckner said.“She chose that route” to leave the event, he said of Turner. “It wasn’t like that was her only avenue of escape, and she didn’t have to leave at that moment; she could have just stayed in her car. ”He added, “From what we can tell, there seemed to be no issues when she was getting into her car. ”The injured people included a man with two broken legs and a woman with major to moderate injuries all over her body, he said.“She was just completely run over, ” Breckner said of the victim. In a video of the incident, he said, “You can see the car kind of bounces around a little bit, because it’s going over that lady.