Video footage captured a driver taking their car through a crowd of people in Chicago who were protesting against Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations. At least one person was injured.
The driver attempted to go through the crowd on East Monroe Street, the Chicago Police Department said, according to WFLD-TV. Overhead footage taken by the TV station shows the car approaching protesters, nudging its way through and then speeding off.
The car struck a 66-year-old woman, whose arm was fractured, CPD said, according to WMAQ-TV. She was treated at a hospital and released.
The victim, Heather Blair, told the Chicago Sun-Times that she saw the car accelerate and that “the next thing I know I’m being dragged to the sidewalk.”
“I was feeling pain in my arm and just like ’what happened?” Ms. Blair told WLS-TV.
Witness Nick Wozniak told WFLD-TV that people were “diving out of the way,” and that the driver was “shouting and they kept barreling through the crowd.”
The Sun-Times identified the car as a maroon 2003 Kia Spectra. A police report cited by the Sun-Times showed that the car is registered to a woman from Wisconsin, but police have not yet arrested anyone for hitting Ms. Blair or driving through the crowd.
Ms. Blair added that “the only bad guy is the driver. … they should not be driving, because they’re a danger to the community.”
