A peaceful demonstration in Ferguson, Missouri, ended in violence Tuesday night when a auto sped through a group of protesters, striking and injuring one man, who was driven to the hospital.
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Weeks said he didn’t recall being thrown to the ground by the auto, but somehow did get up and walk away. According to Ferguson spokesman Jeff Small, “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”.
As protesters held their demonstration, one of them was struck by a vehicle. Brown, an unarmed black man, was shot by Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson, who is white, on August 9, 2014.
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.
It also spurred the “Black Lives Matter” movement that has cast a spotlight on long-troubled relations between police and minority residents in many USA cities.
French told NBC News that as long as police officers carried on being “unaccountable for their actions”, deep mistrust would remain between police and their communities. The driver stated that she did not see the man standing in the road when she struck him with her vehicle.
The man was put into a private vehicle to be taken to a hospital, she said.
After the shots rang out, most of the protesters left the area, she said, adding that she doesn’t think the gunfire and the vehicle accident were linked because of how much time went by between the two incidents.
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A St. Louis County grand jury and the U.S. Justice Department determined that no charges should be filed against Wilson, who resigned that November. This color is handsome. He adds Ferguson is well on the road to recovery after the unrest that followed Brown’s death in 2014, with a net-positive economic growth since that time. The federal agency and the city agreed in 2016 to make sweeping changes.
