Chaos ensued during a Ferguson, Missouri protest marking the two year anniversary of the shooting death of Michael Brown. A auto speeding down West Florissant Avenue, where roughly 75 protesters gathered not far from where Brown died, struck a protester who was in the street. A city spokesman later stated that the vehicle was punctured with a slew of bullet holes, and that police were in search of the culprit.
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At this time police say no one was shot, the condition of the man hit by the vehicle is unknown and and investigation is on going. There is no word on the mans condition.
“A lady came down and hit a protester ― knocked the shoes off his feet”, Sharon Cowan, who was at the scene, told AP.
An order to clear the street by police led to a shouting match between the two sides, The Associated Press reported.
At a time when unarmed black Americans in the US are five times as likely as unarmed white Americans to be shot and killed by police, one observer says the reforms that began after Ferguson are nowhere near complete.
City Alderman Antonio French released a film via Twitter on Tuesday chronicling the protests that followed the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown two years ago.
The incident was captured on video and after the collision, members of the group opened fire on the vehicle. The driver stated that she did not see the man standing in the road when she struck him with her auto. Brown committed a robbery and when Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson asked him to get out of the street (without knowledge of the robbery), Brown attacked him.
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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. Brown’s father said the shooting “opened the eyes of the world”. His death sparked months of sometimes violent protests in Ferguson and drew nationwide focus on police treatment of black suspects. Darren Wilson resigned from the police force in November, 2014. The movement’s ranks have swelled considerably after many other killings of blacks by the police in several parts of the country. “This color is not a disease”.
