A vehicle was reportedly vandalized at about 8:40 p.m. Monday, Bloomington Police Department reported.
A 21 year-old man said he came across a large group of people in the street as he was driving home in his 2003 SUV. Those people were part of a Black Lives Matter demonstration that had begun earlier that night. The protesters were in the process of marching to BPD station when they came across the SUV.
The man said he asked the protesters to get out of the way as he attempted to drive home. Instead, the protesters began to hit his car windows with their hands and yelled and cursed at him.
Video footage from the march shows the complainant arguing with protesters and him driving further into the mass of protesters before they began beating on his car.
According to the police report, the passenger side of the windshield was shattered after being hit multiple times and the passenger side mirror was broken as well.
At about 10:30 p.m. Monday, the alleged victim called police to report the vandalism.
Dominick Jean
