St. Louis: Man Drives Through Protesters Blocking Street After They Attack His Car

Police and a witness gave differing versions of how protesters were injured when a driver pulled into a group that had blocked an intersection on Wednesday night.

The witness, Keith Rose, said the driver had his middle fingers raised before he accelerated through the group of people who were blocking Manchester Avenue and Sarah Street in the Grove neighborhood.

But St. Louis police said the driver stopped, honked and attempted to drive around the protesters before some of them surrounded his car and began hitting it with their hands and a flag pole.

The police statement, from spokeswoman Schron Jackson, said that three protesters were injured after they jumped onto the car and fell off when the driver pulled away.

Jackson said the driver was taken into custody about a block from the intersection after initially refusing to stop for officers. She said the incident was captured on video.

A video taken by Heather De Mian, a vigil attendee at the scene, also captured the incident.

Police were responding to a domestic dispute call at 8am and arrived to find a 30-year-old man wounded with stab wounds across his face, arms and torso, reported the St. Louis Dispatch.

Interim police Chief Lawrence O'Toole said cops saw Herring armed with a large kitchen knife and lunged at officers with it when they asked her to drop the weapon.

Herring reportedly lunged at an officer and wounded them.

This prompted police to fire at Herring, shooting the woman dead.

O'Toole said: 'The suspect flourished a knife and slashed at the officers, slicing one officer on the arm. The officers fired and shot and killed the suspect.'

However, the police described Herring as a man in their reports, although she identifies as woman, which sparked public outcry within the St. Louis community.

Kristopher Kristy Thompson, was Herring's partner and was arrested over the altercation.

Thompson, 28, was charged on Wednesday with assault and armed criminal action, as the neighbor who was stabbed is in serious but stable condition.

Herring's sister-in-law told the Post Dispatch that Thompson is a transgender man.

She said the couple had moved to the area from Mississippi and were raising three boys under the age of eight in the apartment, who were biologically Thompson's children.