#Car speeds away with protester on hood after alleged lynching attempt in Indiana

A driver sped away with two people clinging to the car during a protest in Indiana over the alleged attempted lynching of a black man, according to reports.

Footage posted to Twitter showed the red vehicle taking off Monday with one person on the hood and another hanging onto the driver’s side in Bloomington.

The incident occurred around 9 p.m. near the Monroe County Courthouse during a demonstration to demand the arrests of several people who allegedly attacked Vauhxx Rush Booker on the Fourth of July near Lake Monroe, news station RTV6 reported.

Geoff Stewart, the man who was holding onto the side of the car, said the protest was wrapping up when the vehicle drove up to the scene.

“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 told the outlet.

“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 the driver continued to accelerate as he held onto the side of the vehicle.

“I was just trying to block her vision so she would slow down so I tried to pull myself as far in her way to obstruct her view,” Stewart said.

“She drove through red lights and made her turn up here that threw both of us off the car.”

The female protester was seen in another video being loaded into an ambulance. Her condition hasn’t been released.

The Bloomington Police Department didn’t immediately respond to request for comment, CNN reported.

The mayor’s office said “the investigation is ongoing and we don’t have enough information to make a statement yet,” according to CNN.