So much for “Black Lives Matter.”
Officer Travis Brown, a black man serving with the police department in Ferguson, Missouri, was critically injured Saturday during a protest marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Michael Brown.
According to the department, Brown was rushed to the hospital in life-threatening condition after sustaining a traumatic brain injury from being knocked to the ground and hitting the back of his head. Brown, a former St. Louis County police officer who’d only been with the Ferguson department since January, was reportedly one of multiple officers responding to protesters who’d attacked a fence surrounding the police station when he was “charged” by a rioter running from the cops.
A frustrated Ferguson Police Chief Troy Doyle blasted protesters for taking what should have been a peaceful protest - though he’s not sure what exactly protesters want, at this point - and turned it into a violent scene.
Ferguson Police Chief Troy Doyle lights into the activist community that continues to torment Ferguson police for no reason at all.
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“My team got out there and was assaulted by a number of the protesters…as a result, one of my police officers suffered a severe brain injury. He is in an area hospital right now, fighting for his life,” an emotional Doyle said during a press conference following the protest.
“This Ferguson police department since 2014 has been a punching bag for this community,” he went on, noting that many of the officers who were with the department in 2014 - the year Michael Brown was shot to death while assaulting a cop in his own police vehicle and trying to grab his gun - aren’t even with the department anymore.
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“What are you protesting? Everything the activist community has advocated for…we have done all of this. What are we protesting?” Doyle continued. “We even changed the uniforms at this department because people said the old uniforms ‘triggered people.’ What are we doing? Ten years later, and I’ve got an officer fighting for his life.”
“It’s enough, and I’m done with it,” he concluded.
Two protesters have been arrested and detained, with one charged with attempted assault in the third degree and resisting arrest, and the other was charged with five counts including assault in the first and fourth degree. Elijah Gantt, 28, has been charged in connection with Brown’s injury, and is being held on $500,000 bond. Three others have been charged with felony property damage.
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