Shocking video shows the moment a woman was struck by a car that then sped off with her clinging to the hood during a protest over a video of a Black man getting pinned to a tree by a group of white men in Indiana.
Police say they are searching for the hit-and-run driver of the red Toyota Corolla that plowed into the woman on a street in Bloomington on Monday night.
Witness Rodney Root posted a brief clip of the incident on Twitter which shows the woman on the hood and a man holding onto the driver's-side mirror while the car drives away.
'This was right after the Black Lives Matter protest had broken up,' Root told CNN.
'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.
'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.'
Shocking video shows the moment a woman was struck by a car that then sped off with her on the hood during a protest over an attack on a Black man in Bloomington, Indiana
A man named Rodney Root posted a brief clip of the incident on Twitter which shows the woman on the hood and a man holding onto the driver's-side mirror while the car drives away. Witnesses said the protesters had tried to block the car on the street
A second video shared on Facebook by Jaren Vaught shows more of what Root described.
A man is seen stepping out of the car with a furious expression before throwing the electric scooter to the side as onlookers say: 'Hey, come on man,' and 'What are you doing?'
The person filming points the camera at the ground and appears to walk toward the car before people are heard shouting in alarm.
'Get out of the way!' one man yells.
Shrieks ring out as the camera pans up to the car driving off. The woman on the hood is not visible from behind, but the footage does show the leg of the man hanging onto the side mirror.
About a dozen people, some of them holding signs with Black Lives Matter slogans, are seen chasing the car down the street before the video cuts off.
A second video shows man is seen stepping out of the car with a furious expression before throwing the electric scooter out of the vehicle's path
Onlookers are then heard shrieking as witnesses said the car struck the woman and man who tried to stop it and began driving down the street with them holding on
It's unclear how far the car traveled before the man and woman were allegedly thrown off
A livestream from WRTV shows the woman being place in an ambulance minutes later. The extent of her injuries is unclear.
The man who was hit, Geoff Stewart, later explained the incident to the news outlet.
'A woman driving the vehicle came up to the stop and had started revving her engine toward us and we tried to stop her and let her know that the crowd is clearing up just wait a second,' Stewart said.
'But, she and her passenger both wanted to go right away - so, they started to push, they pushed into the woman that was with me and when she pushed again both of us went on the vehicle.'
Stewart said once the car started moving down the street he tried to block the driver's vision so she would slow down.
'I tried to pull myself as far in her way to kind of obstruct her view. She drove through red lights and made her turn up here that threw both of us off the car,' he said.
The protest that preceded the hit-and-run was organized in response to a Black man's claims that he was attacked by a group of white men who accused him and his friends of trespassing on private property at a lake in Bloomington on Saturday.