The protesters had gathered in Bloomington to demand arrests in an assault on a local civil rights activist and member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission over the Fourth of July weekend
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Police in a southern Indiana city are searching for two people who were in a car that struck a woman, knocking her unconscious, and dragged a man during a protest to demand arrests after a group of white men were caught on video assaulting a Black man at a nearby lake.
A male passenger got out of a red Toyota car and went to move an electric scooter that had been left in the road near the protest site, Pedigo said. A 29-year-old woman approached the car as if to stop it moving forward, placing her hands on the hood, he said.The driver accelerated into the woman, launching her onto the hood. At that point, a 35-year-old man grabbed the driver’s side of the car and held on as the vehicle continued to accelerate.
The red Toyota has not been located and investigators are still trying to determine the identities and location of the male passenger and female driver, police said in a news release.The protesters had gathered in Bloomington, about 50 miles southwest of Indianapolis, to demand arrests in an assault on Vauhxx Booker, a local civil rights activist and member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission, over the Fourth of July weekend.
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