A senior woman was arrested after being caught on camera ramming her car into a group of protesters of whom some appeared to be blocking her way.
The incident occurred in Bloomington, Indiana, where a group of Black Lives Matter protesters gathered to demand the arrest of a group of men whom civil rights activist Vauhxx Booker accused of assaulting him.
Following the protest, as the group was disbanding, 66-year-old Christi Bennett arrived at the street near Monroe County Courthouse where one of the protesters blocked her way using an electric scooter.
As the witness who filmed the incident explained in an interview with CNN, the escalation occurred just after the “protest had broken up.”
“There was a man attempting to hold traffic with an electric scooter and the passenger of the car got out, slammed the scooter to the ground and got back in,” Rodney Root told CNN.
“A lady ran up to confront the car and the car struck her and sped off at full speed. I was so shocked I started chasing and stopped the video.”
According to the reports, Bennett, who was in a car with a man, drove off the scene with two protesters hanging off her car.
Following the incident, it was reported that one of them, a 53-year-old man, suffered minor injuries, whereas the other one, a 29-year-old woman, was knocked unconscious and sustained a wound to her head.
After the confrontation, the police identified the driver as Christi Bennett and booked her into jail on preliminary charges including criminal recklessness and fleeing the scene of an accident.
The 66-year-old was later released from the Monroe County Jail on a $500 cash bond. She is expected to appear in court on July 17.
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