According to the police in Salt Lake City, As a result of the shooting, one person was sent to the hospital in a critical stateand the suspicious attacker was detained.
The circumstances of the shooting are previously unknown. The organizers of the protest told the local NBC television branch that the perpetrator was probably the “agitator” and the victim of the protest.
Video materials from the protest show people escaping in panic after hearing the shots.
The protest in Salt Lake City was One of almost 2 thousand demonstration under the slogan “no kings” against Donald Trump throughout the country. In Minnesota, protests were dismissed after earlier politically motivated attacks on two prominent Democrats politicians at Minneapolis. The police suspected that the perpetrator, identified as 57-year-old Vance Boelter, could plan an attack on demonstrations. The names of 70 Democrats politicians were to have the names of the goals.
