A hit-and-run driver who police say struck and broke the foot of a pro-Palestine protester in the middle of a Salt Lake City intersection on Tuesday evening has been arrested.
According to police, the 29-year-old man was driving west on 400 South when he encountered a group of people protesting within the intersection of 400 West.
When the light turned green for westbound drivers, all other westbound traffic yielded to them, but the driver “attempted to drive around the protestors, striking the victim in the road,” according to a probable cause statement.
The driver later told police he “felt something” on impact, but kept driving because he was afraid to stop at the protest, the document states. He was arrested several hours later after a witness provided his license plate number to police.
The man was jailed on suspicion of failing to remain at a crash involving injury, which is a misdemeanor offense. He was released without bail. The Salt Lake Tribune generally does not name defendants unless they have been formally charged with a felony.
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