There have been at least 19 cases of cars driving through demonstrators since protests began. Only 8 drivers have faced charges.

• There have been at least 19 cases of civilian cars running into demonstrators since protests over George Floyd's death began, The Washington Post reported.
• Charges were brought up in just eight of those incidents, according to The Post.
• Out of the other cases, three cases resulted in no charge, and authorities deemed two others accidents, The Post reported.
• There has also been a resurgence of memes mocking the car-plowing attacks with photos of bloodied trucks alongside messages like "Run them over" and "All lives splatter."

People have driven their cars through George Floyd protesters in the US at least 19 times in recent weeks, but only eight of those cases have led to charges so far, The Washington Post reported.

The attacks mostly came in areas where there were large crowds demonstrating against police brutality and racial injustice after Floyd's May 25 death. Most of the incidents were captured on video, and footage was posted online.

For example, a car that plowed through a crowd in front of the Bakersfield Police Headquarters in Bakersfield, California, on May 30.

Another livestreamed video showed a car driving through peaceful protesters in Newport Beach, California, and almost running over a toddler, according to KABC. Similar incidents unfolded in places like Gainesville, Florida, and Lakeside, a suburb of Richmond, Virginia, The Post reported.

In just eight of those cases, the drivers faced charges for what prosecutors called a deliberate act, according to The Post.

The driver in Richmond, Harry Rogers, attempted to intimidate protesters with his pickup truck, and hit one demonstrator's bicycle and ran over his foot, The Post reported. He later told prosecutors he was a local leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

Out of the other cases, three cases resulted in no charge, and authorities ruled two others as accidents, The Post reported.

The string of violent incidents are reminiscent of 2017, when a car ran over and killed Heather Heyer, a counter-protester at a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In recent weeks, there has also been a resurgence of memes mocking the car-plowing attacks with photos of bloodied trucks and messages like "All lives splatter" and "Run them over," according to The Post.

Ari Weil, the deputy research director at the University of Chicago's Project on Security and Threats, tweeted earlier this month that running over protesters in vehicles in the US is a distinctly far-right tactic that first appeared in 2015 during Black Lives Matter and Dakota Access Pipeline protests.

Weil told Vox that the online celebrations of plowing cars through protesters create a dangerous environment as "memes and these kinds of discussions makes it more likely these kinds of attacks will happen."

"Unfortunately, we're seeing more celebrations of these kinds of attacks online," Weil told Vox. "Plus, we're also going to see these protests go on for a while."