 A man shouts at a police officer following an officer-involved shooting at 200 South Rio Grande Street in Salt Lake City, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. Neighboring departments, including Unified Police Department, West Valley City, Sandy and University of Utah police, deployed to assist Salt Lake City officers. Officers tried to break up the fight, but the male with the broomstick tried to attack an officer, he said. Mohammad told the newspapers that his friend was holding the broomstick at his side when officers arrived and that police shot him as soon as he turned around. After the shooting, bystanders began yelling obscenities and throwing rocks and bottles at police, who called in about 100 officers to help. Hansen said one officer was hit with a bottle, but he did not have details about whether that officer or any other was injured. Salt Lake City police confirmed one officer, and possibly a second officer, were involved in the shooting, but did not provide more details. "Our officers arriving on scene encountered a lot of hostile people upset about what had taken place," Wilking told The Deseret News. Police, including officers wearing helmets and carrying riot shields, barricaded four surrounding city blocks. Police closed the Trax Blue Line before the Old Greektown stop, providing difficulties for some fans leaving the Utah Jazz game. He said some people were detained and witnesses were being interviewed at a police headquarters Saturday night. "There were pockets of that disturbance for hours," Hansen said Sunday.
– A male who authorities say was wielding a broomstick was shot and critically injured by Salt Lake City officers Saturday night, touching off several hours of unrest downtown as officers donned riot gear and blocked streets and bystanders threw rocks and bottles, the AP reports. The male shot by two Salt Lake City Police officers was in critical condition at a local hospital Sunday morning after being struck twice in the torso, according to Det. Ken Hansen with the Unified Police Department, which is investigating the shooting. Hansen did not have details about the male's identity or age, but said the shooting occurred when two Salt Lake City officers were called around 8pm to break up a fight near a downtown homeless shelter that sits next to a shopping mall and movie theater. When the officers arrived, they found the male in the street, hitting another person with the broomstick, Hansen says. Officers tried to break up the fight, but the male with the broomstick tried to attack an officer and one or both of the police officers then shot the male, hitting him in the upper and lower torso, per Hansen. Selam Mohammad, 19, tells the Deseret News that he was with a 16-year-old friend from Kenya when fighting started and the friend grabbed a broomstick to break it up. Police "ran up with their guns pulled out" and told the friend to drop the stick, Mohammad says. "He barely even turned around, then boom, boom, boom—and he just dropped," he adds. "My friend didn’t do anything." Nearly 100 officers, some with riot shields, responded when rioting ensued, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.