BLM Protester Stages Fake Incident Alleging Ia. Gov.’s SUV Hit Him July 1, 2020 Admin 29 Comments
‘I 100% think they intentionally hit me…’ Kim Reynolds photo Kim Reynolds/Photo by Gage Skidmore (CC)
(Liberty Headlines) An SUV carrying Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds hit a Black Lives Matter protester who was trying to block the vehicle Tuesday as she left an event in northern Iowa, but the Iowa State Patrol blamed the protester and said there was little contact.
The state patrol confirmed the SUV struck the protester, who was among about two dozen Black Lives Matter activists who had traveled 90 miles from Des Moines to Ackley. Members of the always-disruptive group weren’t allowed into the event at Family Traditions Meat, a small processor, so they gathered at the end of a driveway and tried to block the governor’s SUV.
Jaylen Cavil, a Black Lives Matters organizer, told the Des Moines Register that he stood in the driveway in the hopes that Reynolds would roll down a window and talk with protesters.
“I was standing right in front of the car and I just stood there. I was like, ‘I’m going to stand here. Surely the driver of the governor is not going to hit me with her car. This is the governor, my governor, who’s supposed to be representing me. I’m sure that her car is not going to intentionally hit me.’ I was wrong,” he said.
Cavil said the impact spun him around and lifted him onto the SUV’s hood, but he wasn’t hurt.
“I 100% think they intentionally hit me,” he said. “There’s no way that this driver could not see me right in front of his car.”