Some spectators appeared to believe it was intentional because the pickup truck narrowly missed hitting a convertible carrying U.S. Trantalis said he saw the driver jump out of the truck and claimed he was screaming vulgarities when detained by police.

In the immediate aftermath, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis, who is openly gay, declared the melee a “terrorist attack against the LGBTQ community,” adding: “This was clearly no accident.” It was definitely an intentional act right across the lanes of traffic.” “All of a sudden there was a loud revving of a truck and a crash through a fence.

“We were at the start of the parade, right in front of Fort Lauderdale High School,” spectator Christina Currie, who was there with her husband and their two elementary school aged children, told the Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale’s local newspaper. Many spectators said that they initially believed the crash to be an intentional act.