David Carson, the man above is a reporter with the Post Dispatch. He has blood on his pants from the man shot.
FERGUSON • A man was shot as a group of about 50 protesters took to West Florissant Avenue near Canfield Drive Tuesday night.
The man was carried to the safety of a chop suey restaurant by bystanders and a Post-Dispatch photographer at the scene.
Police who were at the scene to monitor the protest quickly took a person into custody in the shooting and recovered a gun.
It was unclear if the shooting was related to the protest.
Some of the cars of the officers who came monitor the protest were targeted by rocks thrown by protesters.
At times the protesters closed traffic on West Florissant.
The site is near where Michael Brown was fatally shot in August by then-Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson. Brown’s death touched off weeks of protests and unrest.
The latest protest comes as protesters face off with police in Baltimore over the death of a man injured there while in police custody.
Protesters blocking traffic, #Ferguson police arrive at West Florissant and Canfield some rocks thrown at cop cars pic.twitter.com/K3Re8YFqc8
— David Carson (@PDPJ) April 29, 2015