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Indiana Woman Is Accused of Driving Into Demonstrators

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Video footage of the attack, in Bloomington, showed a car zooming forward as a woman clung to its hood and a man clutched the driver’s side, his foot grazing the asphalt.
A woman who was accused of driving her car through a crowd of protesters in Bloomington, Ind., on Monday, injuring at least two people, has been arrested, the authorities said Thursday.
The Bloomington Police Department said in a statement that Christi J. Bennett, 66, of Scottsburg, Ind., was arrested on Wednesday night and charged with two counts of criminal recklessness, a felony, and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious bodily injury.
She was booked into the Monroe County Jail on Thursday morning, according to a jail official, and was released on a $2,000 surety and $500 cash bond.
Ms. Bennett is accused of driving her red Toyota into a demonstration in downtown Bloomington, where several hundred people gathered in front of government buildings on Monday to demand the arrest of a group of men who had pinned and threatened a Black civil rights activist, Vauhxx Booker, over the holiday weekend.
The episode is one of dozens in recent weeks in which people have been seen, or captured on video, driving into protests and injuring or killing demonstrators. It is difficult to assess which attacks were premeditated and which were prompted by rage when drivers found the roads blocked by crowds.

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