Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ auto struck a Black Life Matter demonstrator who blocked the vehicle’s path Tuesday, in accordance to a report.

Jaylen Cavil, an organizer with Des Moines Black Lives Matter, reported he stood in front of the governor’s auto exterior of an celebration in Ackley, hoping Reynolds would roll down her window to speak to demonstrators, the Des Moines Sign-up reported.

The demonstrators had been barred from the occasion.

“The SUV that Gov. the was driving in drove suitable up to me,” Cavil instructed the outlet. “I was standing suitable in entrance of the car and I just stood there. I was like, ‘I’m heading to stand here. Surely the driver of the governor is not going to strike me with her automobile.”

“This is the governor, my governor, who’s meant to be symbolizing me,” he claimed. “I’m confident that her car or truck is not heading to intentionally hit me. I was erroneous.”

Cavil afterwards took to Twitter above the bumpy come across.

“I’m physically all right,” he wrote. “Just even now shocked & striving to method the truth that the governor’s car or truck deliberately strike me currently.”

A spokesperson for Reynolds declined to comment on the incident, but condition law enforcement later confirmed it in a statement.

“Preliminary studies from regulation enforcement at the scene suggest the demonstrator deliberately stepped in entrance of the transferring car,” Sgt. Alex Dinkla explained to the outlet. “The demonstrator appeared to suffer no accidents, did not ask for clinical therapy and continued with his routines.”

Cavil explained an Iowa Condition Patrol trooper walked up to him just after the incident and started yelling at him, calling him “an fool,” the Sign-up said.

The activist was between about a dozen demonstrators who showed up at the party to urge the governor to signal an govt purchase restoring voting legal rights for ex-downsides who had served their time.

Customers of the city’s BLM has two times fulfilled with Reynolds to urge her to indication the purchase, but she has not fully commited to signing it, at minimum not for now.