A sheriff's deputy struck a woman with a car at protest of police violence

Protest of the police killing of Stephon Clark in Sacramento

(Image credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

published 1 April 2018

A sheriff's vehicle hit a woman named Wanda Cleveland, 61, at a protest over the police killing of Stephon Clark in Sacramento, California, Saturday night.

"The vehicle accelerated and struck her, accelerated very fast, and struck her violently, and she fell to the ground," said Guy Danilowitz, who recorded video of the incident. "It was a very fast acceleration, not the way you would move with people around."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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