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Other protesters
tried to block the car to stop the driver from getting away,
witnesses told the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Ferguson police spokesman Jeff Small told the newspaper that the
driver did not appear to have intentionally hit the protester
and was cooperating with the authorities.
Police had found bullet holes in the car but no arrests have
been made and no one was shot, he said.
The unidentified protester had walked into a busy street during
the evening demonstration near where Brown was shot by a
Ferguson police officer on Aug. 9, 2014, the St. Louis Post
Dispatch said.
Brown's death sparked months of sometimes violent protests both
in Ferguson and across America following subsequent police
killings of unarmed black men in several other cities.
It also spurred the "Black Lives Matter" movement that has cast
a spotlight on long-troubled relations between police and
minority residents in many U.S. cities.
Ferguson police were not immediately available to comment.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by Louise
Ireland)
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