HARROWING SCENES
THIS is the horrifying moment a woman was hit by a car while protesting against the alleged attempted lynching of a black man in Indiana.
Video shared on Twitter on Monday appears to show a red vehicle mowing the female protester down during a Black Lives Matter protest in Bloomington.
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Footage filmed by Rodney Root appears to show a woman clutching onto the hood of the red vehicle for dear life and a man grabbing onto the driver's side as it speeds down a road in
Root told the attack at the protest started with a protester who tried to block the road with an electric scooter.
"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," he said.
"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."
In another clip, a man exits what appears to be a red Toyota Corrolla to angrily tosses aside a motorized scooter impeding his path before reentering the car.
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As the person filming the video walks toward the car, someone can be heard saying, "Get out of the way, get out of the way!" as the driver revs up his engine.
That's when a woman shrieks and the Toyota peels off into the crowd with a clearer view of the male protester seen holding onto the driver's side of the car.
"Yo, what the f**k! Yo, they are not stopping! He is still on the car!" the person filming the video shouts.
"Holy f**k they won't get off the car!" he continues as dozens of protesters chase after the driver.
A live stream captured showed the woman being loaded into an ambulance, but the extent severity of her injuries is unknown, according to CNN.
The clash came days after activist in Bloomington by a mob of white men with Confederate flags in a harrowing Facebook post on July 4.
Booker claimed the men allegedly pinned him against a tree, jumped on his neck, and yanked his hair moments after he and his friends were stalked by a man riding an ATV.
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