Van crashes into Minneapolis bus shelter; witnesses say it may have been intentional

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Around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning, a ring of onlookers in north Minneapolis stood, phones in hand, as police officers milled about the ruins of a bus stop on Broadway and Lyndale.

The metal frame of the shelter was half-collapsed. Shards of glass spread in a pool on the sidewalk. Medical workers were tending to several people lying on the ground or in stretchers. Nearby, a beige van waited while an officer talked to the person in the driver’s seat.

One of the spectators taking video, Facebook user Darnell DeMarco, described what happened as a “North Side tragedy.” As he explained – and Metro Transit later confirmed – the man in the van had slammed into the bus shelter and injured the people who were “chilling” inside – “brothers and sisters,” according to DeMarco.

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But some people who were on the scene say they saw the van “circle the block several times” beforehand, and speculated that the driver – who several onlookers said was white -- had done this on purpose.

“He rode around the block and just said 'fuck it,' and drove his van right into the bus stop where they be chilling and drinking,” DeMarco said. Murmurs of “Oh, hell, no” and “hate crime” rumbled in the background.