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St. Louis: Driver Injures Mourners at Vigil for Transgender Police Victim

HeadlineAug 25, 2017

In St. Louis, Missouri, police have arrested a man accused of driving his car into a group of protesters as they marched to honor an African-American transgender woman who was killed by a St. Louis police officer earlier this week. Police charged 59-year-old Mark Colao with a felony count of resisting arrest and two misdemeanor charges of leaving the scene of an accident and operating a vehicle in a careless manner. Surveillance video of the incident shows a car driving slowly through a crowd of demonstrators in an intersection, stopping for several seconds before accelerating at high speed through the intersection and turning left. At least three people were injured in the incident, which came just weeks after anti-racist protester Heather Heyer was struck by a car and killed by a neo-Nazi terrorist in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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