Mostly ‘peaceful’, except for shootings and implicit threat ‘pig roast’.
An evening of peaceful protests in Ferguson abruptly shifted to violence just before midnight when a man was shot near the Family Dollar store on West Florissant Avenue.
The rear window of an unmarked police vehicle also was shattered, apparently by a bullet.
The Saturday night gunfire sent chaos through a large group that had gathered to commemorate Michael Brown, who was killed a year ago this weekend.
Witnesses said the altercation began outside a McDonald’s restaurant and the victim was pursued and shot in a nearby Family Dollar parking lot.
The man was shot in the left arm. Police shut down West Florissant Avenue at Ferguson Road to respond to the gunfire and to allow emergency crews to take the man with the bullet wound to a hospital.