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Driver slams into Ferguson protester

GUNFIRE has broken out at a demonstration held to mark the second anniversary of murdered black teen Michael Brown in Missouri.

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Witnesses told The Associated Press that a auto drove through a group of protesters who were blocking a street during the demonstration Tuesday night to mark two years since the unarmed black 18-year-old’s fatal shooting by a white police officer.

Shortly after he was hit, a number of protesters began chasing the auto, pulling out guns and firing them as they did so, witnesses said.

Shots rang out after a protester was hit by a vehicle as people gathered.

The man seemed badly injured and was put into a private vehicle to be taken to a hospital, Cowan said.

Demonstrators remained on the scene.

Michael Brown’s death “opened the eyes of the world” to concerns about law enforcement’s treatment of black people, Brown’s father said Tuesday during a memorial service marking the two-year anniversary of the shooting.

The group was made up of a few dozen people who marched from the site on Canfield Drive where Brown was fatally shot by a police officer to a busy intersection that was the site of previous protests.

The protestors periodically blocked traffic and chanted “no justice, no peace” and other slogans.

Brown was shot and killed by a white Ferguson police officer, leading to weeks of sometimes-violent protests. The officer, who resigned, was cleared by a state grand jury and the U.S. Justice Department, but the shooting led to a consent decree governing the Ferguson Police Department.

The events are planned late Tuesday morning on Canfield Drive.

The black, unarmed 18-year-old was shot by Ferguson officer Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014. A St. Louis County grand jury and an investigation by the Department of Justice found that Wilson was justified in shooting Michael Brown.

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The death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in 2014 sparked the Black Lives Matter campaign, which aims to raise awareness of the killings of black men and women by police officers.

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