Cop critically hurt at Ferguson protest in Denver [View all]
Source: USA Today
Trevor Hughes
DENVER — Four police officers were hurt, one critically, after a car hit them during a high school student protest over a grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer who shot an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo.
Denver Police said the officers were part of a bicycle unit providing crowd control during a march down Colfax Avenue downtown when a car plowed into them around noon.
The car's driver suffered a "medical issue," and was also being treated at a hospital following the crash, police said. The critically injured officer was in surgery as of 2 p.m, police said.
Hundreds of Denver's East High School students left classes shortly before 11 a.m., marching down the 16th Street Mall pedestrian district, some of them chanting "hands up, don't shoot." That call has become a rallying cry for people upset about the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, at the hands of a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9.
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Hundreds of students walk out of class. This view of the protest was submitted by a KUSA-TV viewer.
(Photo: Ryan Pellet for KUSA-Denver)
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