Ferguson Protester Hit By Car After Blocking Intersection


The Ferguson protester hit by a car in Minneapolis will be okay, though it may not seem that way when you watch the Star Tribune’s video of the incident.

The female victim was not identified by authorities as of Thursday morning, but she was one of many demonstrators in the city staging a rally in opposition to the grand jury verdict that acquitted a Missouri police officer for killing a teen robbery suspect after evidence showed the officer was attacked.

She along with countless other Minneapolis Ferguson protesters blocked an intersection as part of the event, but a driver decided to plow through the sea of people anyway. While the driver, an unidentified male, wasn’t going at a high rate of speed, he did manage to take a few protesters onto the hood of his car. It also appears in the video that he runs the woman’s leg over completely.

The Star Tribune reports that she somehow only sustained minor injuries.

The driver, authorities say, is in contact with police and cooperating, but he has not been arrested at this time.

In the video, when he hits the woman and a few other protesters, the rest become incensed and take advantage of the low rate of speed to pound and kick the vehicle until it’s able to drive away.

A reporter at the event said that the vehicle “started honking at protesters blocking the intersection before running down a woman around the start of the rally at 4:30 p.m.,” the news site reports.

Aerial video shows the vehicle go around another stopped car and into the crowd as other vehicles go around the gathering. More than one Ferguson protester appears to “get on the hood of the car as it pushes its way through the crowd and it hits and appears to run over the legs of a demonstrator.”

When the victim went down, reports state that the demonstrators “stood hand in hand around the woman” and that she “was attended by paramedics in the intersection before she was wheeled into an ambulance.”

The vehicle was identified as a Subaru Outback.

If you’d like to have a look at the full video of the incident from KSTP, click here, though a word of warning.

In spite of the minor injuries, it’s pretty disturbing to see the woman go under the automobile. If your imagination has a field day with that sort of thing, you may want to avoid.

Do you think any Ferguson protester hit by a car is being victimized or are they creating too much chaos for motorists to respond appropriately? Sound off in our comments section.

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