The video shows protesters standing on the side of the road to commemorate the second anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson.
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The violent Black Lives Matter movement doesn’t seem to grasp that standing in the middle of a busy street as cars buzz by can be a unsafe prospect.
Brown – a teenager – was the victim of a brutal police shooting.
The day was marked with peaceful protests until that incident. However, the driver was reportedly “very, very cooperative” with police.
Weeks said he didn’t recall being thrown to the ground by the vehicle, but somehow did get up and walk away. The protest started in the back of the theater, with banners and chanting. A police spokesman acknowledged there were arrests but declined to say how many. “I was terrified that he was dead that’s why I was screaming, and then 50 seconds later, two rounds of gunshots”. When she heard gunfire, she screamed some more.
They called the actors off stage but resumed after the protesters left.
Several journalists covering the march also echoed the accounts in social media posts Tuesday night from the scene. Brown’s death spawned #HandsUpDontShoot movement as well as nights of violent protests in the city that saw a militarized police force confront citizens as Black Lives Matter began to form.
The death of Michael Brown at the hands of police in 2014 and the events that followed set off protests and unrest in Ferguson and other U.S. cities.
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Earlier in the day, a few hundred people gathered for a memorial service and moment of silence along Canfield Drive at the spot where Brown was fatally shot by officer Darren Wilson after a confrontation on August 9, 2014. The officer, who resigned, was cleared by a state grand jury and the U.S. Justice Department.
