An angry driver struck two protesters in Indiana during a demonstration against the attempted lynching of a local civil rights activist.
The incident happened a day after Vauhxx Booker, a Bloomington human rights commissioner, was attacked by a group of white men and women July 4 while camping at nearby Lake Monroe, and protesters took to the streets to demand charges against the assailants.
Portions of the incident were witnessed by passersby and recorded on video, and the Law Enforcement Division of The Indiana Department of Natural Resources confirmed its officers responded to the attack but have not yet made any arrests.
“The incident is under investigation and the final report will be forwarded to the Monroe County Prosecutor’s Officer upon completion,” said Capt. Jet Quillen.
The 36-year-old Booker was hoping the prosecutor would issue warrants for the assailants’ arrest, and he called on the DNR to discipline the officers who responded to the attack.
“They refused to make an arrest,” Booker told the newspaper.
The protest drew a violent response to the driver of a red car that was seen intentionally ramming a woman who was marching in a downtown street, and a man appeared to jump onto the car in an apparent effort to help the woman or stop the driver, reported WTTV-TV.
Both the man and woman ended up on the hood of the red Mazda, and the driver then accelerated and turned, sending the pair flying.
A separate video showed a white man wearing a face covering jump out of the passenger side door to move a rental scooter from the car’s path.
Demonstrators were able to identify the license plate on the back of the car, but the driver was not immediately arrested.
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