{"id":18334,"date":"2023-09-27T09:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T14:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=18334"},"modified":"2023-09-27T09:33:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T14:33:07","slug":"multiple-striking-autoworkers-struck-by-car-outside-michigan-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=18334","title":{"rendered":"Multiple striking autoworkers struck by car outside Michigan plant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Michigan are looking for an auto plant employee who they say struck a group of picketing autoworkers with their vehicle outside a plant Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Matthew Bade of the Metro Police Authority of Genesee County told ABC affiliate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc12.com\/news\/local\/multiple-picketers-hit-by-a-vehicle-outside-the-flint-processing-center\/article_31065748-5caf-11ee-a920-6391b7ea3d60.html\">WJRT<\/a>&nbsp;that the employee was leaving the Flint Processing Center on Bristol Road in Swartz Creek when he struck the crowd that was picketing around 4 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The picketers were allegedly blocking a driveway to the plant as the employee was exiting the facility, Bade said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least five people were injured in the incident with minor injuries, according to Bade. No one was hospitalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver wasn&#8217;t immediately identified or found, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jack Crawley, a spokesman for General Motors, which operates the plant, said in a statement, &#8220;Plant leadership is working closely with local authorities to investigate and understand what happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/multiple-striking-auto-workers-struck-223756576.html\">aol<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Michigan are looking for an auto plant employee who they say struck a group of picketing autoworkers with their vehicle outside a plant Tuesday afternoon. Chief Matthew Bade of the Metro Police Authority of Genesee County told ABC affiliate&nbsp;WJRT&nbsp;that the employee was leaving the Flint Processing Center on Bristol Road in Swartz Creek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152,5780],"tags":[1755,22775,22776,22748],"class_list":["post-18334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","category-livehood","tag-car","tag-knocked-down","tag-michigan-factory","tag-striking-autoworkers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18336,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18334\/revisions\/18336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}