Guns Are an Increasing Danger at Already Tense Protests



As a Jeep drove into a crowd of anti-police violence protesters seeking to shut down a busy highway in Aurora, Colorado, gunshots rang out.

No one was hit by the Jeep, according to police, but two protesters were struck by gunfire and ended up at local hospitals.

Police say the bullets were meant for the SUV and fired by one of the protesters. One man was arrested on multiple counts, including attempted murder. The rally was to protest the death of Elijah McClain, who died following an encounter with police in 2019.

“I heard the screams first and then I heard gunshots,” said Tay Anderson, a Denver School Board member and community organizer who was at that protest when the shooting happened. “I was super concerned, mainly for the women and children that were present.”

The shooting at the protest in Aurora was just one of several similar incidents at protests across the country, from an apparent accident that injured three in Louisville, to a woman accused of pointing a gun at protesters in Boise, to the killing of an armed protester by a driver in Austin, Texas.

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