Luckily, no one was shot, but a speeding auto struck a protester flinging him into the air.
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While the driver told police he or she did not hit the protester intentionally, the Associated Press is also reporting gunfire broke out after the incident.
Man said to been struck by vehicle during rallying late Tuesday.
Brown – a teenager – was the victim of a brutal police shooting.
Less than a minute later gunshots can be heard.
Witnesses told a reporter from AP that the vehicle made its way to a group of demonstrators and struck the young man so hard that the poor person that he was flung into the air.
Police responded to reports of gunfire, but found no evidence that anyone had been hit by a bullet, said Ferguson PD spokesman Jeff Small.
Shots were fired shortly after the incident as screaming onlookers surrounded the injured man and others chased the vehicle.
The person hit by the vehicle was taken to a hospital in a private vehicle. “By all accounts, her version of what happened seems to fit the version of what happened to a person driving down a busy West Florissant Avenue and not seeing a person standing there”, Small said. And no arrests have been made.
Earlier that day, close to a hundred people gathered along Canfield Drive, the same spot Brown was fatally shot by officer Darren Wilson, after an altercation on August 9, 2014.
There were no charges against Wilson because the State grand jury refused to do so.
Brown’s death led to months of sometimes-violent protests in Ferguson.
The 2014 death of Brown at the hands of Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson police officer, was the catalyst for the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Brown’s father, also named Michael Brown, said in a brief speech during the memorial service that the anniversary was a sad day for him and his family, and for the world, too. This color is handsome.
