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Tension at funerals for Orlando victims with protest, irate driver
Source: Reuters
World | Sat Jun 18, 2016 7:16pm EDT
Tension at funerals for Orlando victims with protest, irate driver
ORLANDO, FLA. | BY BERNIE WOODALL AND ROSELLE CHEN
Funerals for two of the 49 victims killed in the shooting at a nightclub in Florida were marked by tense scenes on Saturday, as an impatient driver was accused of injuring two law enforcement officers and another took place under the watch of anti-gay protesters.
Two Osceola County Sheriff's deputies on motorcycles were injured at the funeral procession for Jean Carlos Mendez in Kissimmee, Florida, some 20 miles (32 km) south of Orlando, when a driver cut through the cortege and struck them with her car, according to a statement on the sheriff's Facebook page.
The deputies were taken to the hospital, where both were in stable condition, said the sheriff's spokeswoman Twis Lizasuain.
At the funeral of another victim, Christopher Leinonen, at a church close to the center of Orlando, a handful of protesters from the Kansas-based anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church stood silently for about 45 minutes. They were blocked from view of those attending the funeral by about 200 counter-protesters, some holding rainbow screens, who cheered when the Westboro members left.
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Tension at funerals for Orlando victims with protest, irate driver
ORLANDO, FLA. | BY BERNIE WOODALL AND ROSELLE CHEN
Funerals for two of the 49 victims killed in the shooting at a nightclub in Florida were marked by tense scenes on Saturday, as an impatient driver was accused of injuring two law enforcement officers and another took place under the watch of anti-gay protesters.
Two Osceola County Sheriff's deputies on motorcycles were injured at the funeral procession for Jean Carlos Mendez in Kissimmee, Florida, some 20 miles (32 km) south of Orlando, when a driver cut through the cortege and struck them with her car, according to a statement on the sheriff's Facebook page.
The deputies were taken to the hospital, where both were in stable condition, said the sheriff's spokeswoman Twis Lizasuain.
At the funeral of another victim, Christopher Leinonen, at a church close to the center of Orlando, a handful of protesters from the Kansas-based anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church stood silently for about 45 minutes. They were blocked from view of those attending the funeral by about 200 counter-protesters, some holding rainbow screens, who cheered when the Westboro members left.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-shooting-idUSKCN0Z40UQ
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