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Black Lives Matter Protester Marching Through Pennsylvania Gets Shot

A video shows one of the protesters, who says he’s been shot, bleeding from the face as he climbs into a car.v
  • Bien Luigi By Bien Luigi
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  • September 15, 2020
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On Monday night, a Black Lives Matter protester was allegedly shot by a white man while marching with a group of fellow activists through rural Pennsylvania. The allegations are according to witnesses and a live-streamed video of the incident.

Posted to Facebook by activist Frank Nitty, the 27-minute video shows the Wisconsin-based protesters — who are in the middle of a 750-mile march from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C. — standing on a road in Schellsburg, Pennsylvania, a little before midnight.

Two white men near the end of the video can be seen standing in front of a nearby building. One of them appears to be holding a gun. Multiple gunshots can then be heard in the video, as Nitty and other activists struggle and duck into the nearby cars that were escorting them on their march.

“We’re leaving! You don’t have to get violent!” one protester can be heard screaming.

The video then shows one of the protesters, who says he’s been shot, bleeding from the face as he climbs into a car.

“Early information indicates there was an incident between a group of activists traveling from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C. and two area residents,” the Pennsylvania State Police said in a statement Tuesday. “Gunfire was exchanged, and one activist was struck. The injured individual is being treated at Conemaugh Hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.”

“The residents involved are being questioned by state police,” the statement continued. “Investigators believe there is no ongoing threat.”

In another statement published later on Tuesday, police added that the incident began after the residents accused the activists of standing in a “private business parking lot.”

The residents, described as the “property owners” in the new statement, then “confronted the activists,” police said, before the “confrontation escalated” and gunshots were exchanged between the two groups.

A police spokesman told HuffPost that the investigation is ongoing and would not clarify who police believe fired the first shot.

One of the activists, Tory Lowe, disputed the police’s account, claiming there was no initial confrontation with the property owners. “The white man just came out shooting,” Lowe wrote in a Facebook post later on Tuesday.

A person who picked up the phone at the private business mentioned in the police report, Myer’s Garage, declined to comment on the incident while it was under police investigation.

In another live-streamed video posted to Facebook soon after the shooting, Lowe explained that the group had stopped briefly Monday night before heading up an incline when the armed man and another man appeared outside the building in Schellsburg, about a two-hour drive east of Pittsburgh.

“He just came down the street shooting with a rifle,” Lowe recounted, describing the shooter as a “white male.”

“I’m hoping these troopers go over there and he get arrested,” Lowe said.

The protesters started their long march earlier this month with the goal of reaching Washington by this Friday to commemorate the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

The journey has been tumultuous at times. Both Lowe and Nitty were arrested as they marched through Indiana two weeks ago. Police there claimed they had blocked traffic.

“The things we have been through just walking the route to Washington, D.C., it’s crazy,” Lowe said.

Their march is part of a summer-long national uprising against police brutality, which has seen massive demonstrations in hundreds of American cities.

Most recently, residents of Kenosha, Wisconsin — a city near Milwaukee — rose up against local police after a video emerged of cops repeatedly shooting an unarmed Black man named Jacob Blake.

Both police and right-wing activists have engaged in violence against Black Lives Matter protesters during the demonstrations this summer. Just this past weekend, a far-right demonstrator allegedly opened fire on protesters in Portland, Oregon.

Shortly before the shooting in Pennsylvania on Monday night, Mark and Patricia McCloskey — the Trump-supporting white couple facing felony charges for waving guns at Black Lives Matter protesters in St. Louis earlier this summer — appeared as featured speakers at the Republican National Convention.

Tags: #BlackLivesMatterPennsylvania
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