Woman, 66, who ‘plowed into BLM “lynching” protesters and sped off with screaming activist on hood’ is arrested
AN Indiana woman who was filmed mowing through Black Lives Matter protesters in a hit-and-run crash that injured two people has been arrested.
Christi Bennett was cuffed late Wednesday and charged with criminal recklessness, authorities said on Thursday.
The 66-year-old also faced charges of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious bodily injury and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in bodily injury, police told .
Bennett was arrested four days after she plowed through a demonstration in downtown Bloomington in support of Vauhxx Booker, a Black activist who claimed he was on July 4.
Booker said he was pinned against a tree in an forest and that the men, who brandished Confederate flags, jumped on his neck before he allegedly heard one of them say "get a noose".
At around 9:26pm on Monday, Bloomington cops said they rushed downtown after receiving a call about a personal injury crash.
Once officers arrived at the scene, they learned a vehicle had hit two protesters and fled.
taken by Rodney Root showed a male passenger in a red Toyota exiting the car to toss aside an electric scooter from a blocked intersection.
Moments later, police said a 29-year-old woman stood in front of the car and placed her hands on the hood.
That's when Bennett allegedly accelerated, according to cops, causing the woman to slide onto the car hood.
A 35-year-old man grabbed and clung onto the driver's side of the vehicle as it "accelerated rapidly" down the street, police said.
Both victims were flung from the Toyota when it made a sharp turn about two blocks from where the car first stopped.
The woman was knocked unconscious and suffered a cut to the head, but was treated at a local hospital and released, authorities said.
The man suffered minor bruises.
Witnesses provided police with a license plate number for the car in addition to several videos of the attack, according to law enforcement.
The materials helped investigators track down and arrest Bennett, the registered owner of the car, and the male passenger at a motel in Scottsburg.
The unidentified passenger was interviewed and released, according to ABC News.
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Bennett and her lawyer declined to provide a statement, cops said.
She was booked at the Monroe County Jail and later released on $2,000 surety and $500 cash bail, while her car was impounded to collect evidence.
Bennett is scheduled to appear in court for an initial hearing on July 17.