Shots were reportedly fired after the auto drove away, with police on the scene responding to the gunfire stating they were unable to find evidence someone had been hit by a auto – an incident witnesses said resulted in the man being driven to hospital in a private vehicle for treatment at a nearby hospital.
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It happened after a police officer ordered a small group of protesters to clear the street as they marched downtown from the site of Brown’s shooting on August 9, 2014, according to the Associate Press.
And on the anniversary of his death, protesters reportedly were forced to duck behind cars as gunfire broke out, panicking the crowd of people.
According to Ferguson spokesman Jeff Small, the female driver didn’t see the man in the road and is being “very, very cooperative” with police. There is no word on the mans condition.
Officials revealed fuller details Wednesday of a Ferguson protest eruption the night before, in which several people fired shots into two vehicles after a man was struck by a auto, apparently by accident. Several protesters pulled out guns and chased and shot at 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.
Others among the roughly 75 protesters began trying to cut off the auto, which then reversed direction and tried to head north to avoid the crowd, according to several witnesses. A grand jury declined to charge Wilson, and he was cleared of civil rights violations by the Justice Department.
The killing led to a Justice Department consent decree for reforms in Ferguson and spawned a national conversation about unfair policing of African-Americans.
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The investigation resulted in an agreement this year between the federal agency and the city calling for sweeping changes. This colour is handsome.
