Confederate flag-flying man in truck hits 4-year-old boy, gets beaten by crowd, in the apartment complex at Winona

The truck that hit 4-year-old Damajae Winn (also pictured)

Confederate flag-flying man in truck hits 4-year-old boy, gets beaten by crowd.

The man's girlfriend, Brook Schrumpf it was an accident:

“We didn’t see him until after the fact,” Schrumpf said. “We didn’t see him until he was lying on the ground. He’s like, ‘I’m pretty sure I just hit a kid.’ I’m like, Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.”

When he got out of the truck, unhappy neighbors attacked him:

According to police, the driver, whose name is Ryan and wishes not to speak on camera, got out of his car to check on the boy. That's when a group of people approached him and attacked."There was like ten guys already there hitting him and pulling him out of the truck and I seriously heard the first hit happen and I took off to go get my mom because I'm like there's one of me and there's 10 of them," says Brook Schrumpf, the driver's girlfriend, who was in the car with Ryan when he hit the child.

Nobody in their right mind intends to hit a 4-year-old with a big ol' pickup truck, but neighbors say the man, identified only as "Ryan", had been provoking the neighborhood for some time:

A predominately Black neighborhood in Winona, Minnesota has had to deal with a Confederate flag waving pickup truck driver for awhile. The driver known in the neighborhood as Ryan frequently drives at high speed on the streets and has been confronted in the past. Within the past month, angry residents pulled the Confederate flag from his truck during one incident. Despite knowing how the community responded to his racist behavior. he did it again; this time, however, he struck 4-year-old Damajae Winn with his car.

Neighbors say he regularly drove recklessly:

Some witnesses in the neighborhood say they were yelling at the driver to tell him to slow down."Stop speeding, stop speeding and kept begging him and begging him and you see what happened," says the young witness.
"There's kids all over the place so he just got up here and he just thought he was going to rev it up and burn down the street and he does this all the time," says Packard.

Although the man wasn't identified by his last name, his social media profile (as well as his girlfriend's) appear to be filled with photos of Confederate flags, "redneck squad" references and pictures of their rolling Confederate flag protests.

Police are investigating both the accident and the beating, but no one has been charged in either case as of yet. [EDIT: Both the 4-year-old boy and the 18-year-old driver were treated and released from the hospital] His girlfriend and family apparently live in the neighborhood, but not for long: