Yesterday on the 2-year anniversary, citizens of Ferguson, MO gathered to pay their respects to Mike Brown who was unjustly gunned down by police. Unfortunately, the day of peaceful mourning was interrupted after a speeding vehicle struck a protester. About 75 people were in attendance and tried to cut off the vehicle, but the driver reversed and drove the other way.
That’s when protesters pulled out guns and began shooting at the car while chasing it. Heather DeMian had been live-streaming the Ferguson protests and gave her account of what actually happened. “I just started screaming, and the bullets started flying, and I started screaming some more,” she said.
According to Jeff Small, the driver did not intentionally hit the protester and says she’s being cooperative with police. “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,” he said.
No arrests have been made and no one was shot. The severity of the injuries of the protester who was struck by the car are unknown since he was not taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
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