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. Unrest broke out in a Salt Lake City neighborhood on... (Associated Press) 
 
 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — 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 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 a bystander told The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News that the male was a teenager. 
 
 Hansen said the shooting occurred when two Salt Lake City officers were called around 8 p.m. 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 said. Officers tried to break up the fight, but the male with the broomstick tried to attack an officer, he said. 
 
 One or both of the police officers then shot the male, hitting him in the upper and lower torso, Hansen said. 
 
 He did not have details about the identity of the other person involved in the fight, what prompted the dispute or whether anyone else was injured. 
 
 "There's still a lot to go through," Hansen said. 
 
 Police are not releasing the identity of the officers, he said. 
 
 Bystander Selam Mohammad told The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News that his teenage friend was shot by police. 
 
 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. 
 
 Hansen did not have details Sunday about how many shots were fired or how far away the male with the broomstick was from police when they pulled their guns. He did not know the size of the broomstick or whether it was sharpened. He also did not know whether the male had a gun, knife or any other weapon on him at the time. 
 
 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. He did not have details about any arrests and directed those questions to Salt Lake City Police. 
 
 Salt Lake City Police did not return messages Sunday morning. Det. Greg Wilking with Salt Lake City Police talked to reporters Saturday night but had few details about what prompted the fight or how the shooting unfolded. 
 
 "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. A light rail stop in the neighborhood was closed. 
 
 "We're locking down the area, barricading off streets and having a strong officer presence in the area," Wilking told the newspaper Saturday night. 
 
 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. 
 
 He said the protesters throwing rocks and bottles were people hanging out near the shelter. He didn't know if they were homeless, but he said they were not customers of the nearby shopping center. Hansen said the area was relatively busy, with people visiting the shopping center and restaurants and others hanging out near the shelter and homeless facilities. ||||| Salt Lake City police confirmed one officer, and possibly a second officer, were involved in the shooting, but did not provide more details. 
 
 There was conflicting information about the boy's age. Hansen said that he was not 16, but older. Hansen said more details would be released later Sunday. 
 
 Salt Lake City police later said in a tweet that officers were responding to a call in area when they were alerted to assault in progress. 
 
 The officers "tried to engage altercation," the tweet added. 
 
 After the shooting, Salt Lake Tribune journalists saw and heard onlookers yelling obscenities at police and throwing rocks. 
 
 There were "a lot of hostile people upset about what had taken place," Detective Greg Wilking said. 
 
 Police detained multiple people, but Wilking could not elaborate on why. 
 
 According to Mohammad, the victim and a man were in a confrontation, and the victim was holding part of a broomstick at his side when officers ran up. 
 
 "They told him to put it down, once," Mohammad said, and "started shooting him as soon as he turned around." 
 
 Mohammad said that the teenager was hit in the chest and stomach. 
 
 Neighboring departments, including Unified Police Department, West Valley City, Sandy and University of Utah police, deployed to assist Salt Lake City officers. In all, almost 100 officers, some carrying riot shields, arrived. 
 
 Hansen said one officer was hit with a bottle, but he did not have details about whether that officer or any other was injured. 
 
 At 8:40 p.m., a line of officers moved people down the sidewalk on the south side of 200 South, from Rio Grande to 400 West. 
 
 Police closed the Trax Blue Line before the Old Greektown stop, providing difficulties for some fans leaving the Utah Jazz game. The TRAX trains resumed about 11 p.m. ||||| Several hundred protesters, some wearing goggles and gas masks, marched past authorities in a downtown street Sunday, hours after riot police forced Occupy Portland demonstrators out of a pair of weeks-old encampments in nearby parks. 
 
 A police officer drags a protester in the Portland encampment Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011, in, Portland, Ore. In a tense escalation of the Occupy Portland protest, police in riot gear Sunday surrounded demonstrators... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police officers arrest a protester in the Portland encampment Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011, in, Portland, Ore. In a tense escalation of the Occupy Portland protest, police in riot gear Sunday surrounded demonstrators... (Associated Press) 
 
 Protesters pack up and leave hours before a mandate from the city to vacate the Occupy Portland Camp in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011.(AP Photo/Don Ryan) (Associated Press) 
 
 Hundreds of protesters and supporters gather hours before a mandate from the city to vacate the Occupy Portland Camp in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011.(AP Photo/Don Ryan) (Associated Press) 
 
 Police officers arrests a protester in the Portland encampment Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011, in, Portland, Ore. In a tense escalation of the Occupy Portland protest, police in riot gear Sunday surrounded demonstrators... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police officers arrests protesters in the Portland encampment Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011, in, Portland, Ore. In a tense escalation of the Occupy Portland protest, police in riot gear Sunday surrounded demonstrators... (Associated Press) 
 
 An American flag and sign are visible as hundreds gather hours before a mandate from the city to vacate the Occupy Portland Camp in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011.(AP Photo/Don Ryan) (Associated Press) 
 
 A protesters packs up hours before a mandate from the city to vacate the Occupy Portland Camp in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011.(AP Photo/Don Ryan) (Associated Press) 
 
 A protester shouts as police officers using nightsticks push people away from the Occupy Portland encampment Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011, in, Portland, Ore. In a tense escalation of the Occupy Portland protest,... (Associated Press) 
 
 A body is removed from a tent in the Occupy Salt Lake camp in Pioneer Park, Friday Nov. 11, 2011 in Salt Lake City. The Occupy Salt Lake group has been in Pioneer Park for weeks, protesting what they... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police moved in shortly before noon and drove protesters into the street after dozens remained in the camp in defiance city officials. Mayor Sam Adams had ordered that the camp shut down Saturday at midnight, citing unhealthy conditions and the encampment's attraction of drug users and thieves. 
 
 More than 50 protesters were arrested in the police action, but officers did not use tear gas, rubber bullets or other so-called non-lethal weapons, police said. 
 
 After the police raid, the number of demonstrators swelled throughout the afternoon. By early evening, dozens of officers brandishing nightsticks stood shoulder-to-shoulder to hold the protesters back. Authorities retreated and protesters broke the standoff by marching through the streets. 
 
 Demonstrators regrouped several blocks away, where they broke into small groups to discuss their future. Some advocated occupying foreclosed homes, others wanted to move onto the Portland State University campus or to the shores of the Willamette River. 
 
 In the hours after the midnight eviction deadline, the anti-Wall Street protesters and their supporters had flooded the park area even as authorities in other cities across the nation stepped up pressure against demonstrators, arresting dozens of people. 
 
 At one point overnight, the Portland crowd swelled to thousands. As dawn arrived, riot police had retreated and most of the crowds had gone home, but protesters who have been at the two parks since Oct. 6 were still there, prompting one organizer to declare the night a victory for the movement. 
 
 "We stood up to state power," Jim Oliver told The Associated Press. 
 
 It didn't last. Police moved in later as demonstrators held a midday "general assembly" meeting to discuss their next moves. An officer on a loudspeaker warned that anyone who resisted risked arrest and "may also be subject to chemical agents and impact weapons." Demonstrators chanted "we are a peaceful protest." 
 
 "We were talking about what we were going to do and then they just started hitting people. Seems like a waste of resources to me," protester Mike Swain, 27, told the AP. 
 
 One man was taken away on a stretcher; he was alert and talking to paramedics, and raised a peace sign to fellow protesters, who responded with cheers. 
 
 Choya Adkison, 30, said police moved in after giving demonstrators a false sense of calm. They thought they had time to rest, relax and regroup, she said 
 
 "Camp was completely vulnerable, completely defenseless" when police moved in, she said. "I'm disappointed that they created a sense of trust by walking away and then completely trampled it." 
 
 City officials erected temporary chain-link fences with barbed wire at the top around three adjacent downtown parks, choking off access for demonstrators as parks officials cleaned up. 
 
 Police Chief Mike Reese told KGW-TV it was his plan to take the parks in a peaceful manner and that's what happened. 
 
 "Our officers have performed exceptionally well," he said. 
 
 Even ahead of the police raid, the camp was a shadow of what it had been before Saturday. A large segment of campers were homeless people drawn to the free food and shelter offered by Occupy Portland. They are gone, after outreach workers went through the camp to help them find shelter elsewhere. 
 
 And as the Saturday midnight eviction deadline neared, protesters themselves began dismantling tents. 
 
 Around 4 a.m., dozens of police formed a line across from demonstrators who had poured into the street. Protesters facing them appeared to be in festive spirits with some banging on drums and plastic pails, another clanging a cowbell while others danced in the streets as a man juggled nearby. 
 
 On Sunday at an impromptu news conference, the mayor defended his order to clear the park, saying it is his job to enforce the law and keep the peace. "This is not a game," Adams said. 
 
 Officials said that one officer suffered minor injuries when he was hit by some kind of projectile in the leg. Police had prepared for a possible clash, warning that dozens of anarchists may be planning a confrontation with authorities. Officers seized pieces of cement blocks Friday, saying they were told some demonstrators had plans to use them as weapons against police. They said they believe some demonstrators were building shields and trying to collect gas masks. 
 
 And police seized incendiary devices, gas masks and marijuana on Sunday after stopping three men for speeding on Interstate 5 south of Portland. The men told police they had left Occupy Portland an hour earlier and were carrying the equipment in anticipation of a confrontation with authorities, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said. 
 
 Meanwhile in Oakland, Calif., friends confirmed Sunday that Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran who suffered a serious head injury during a police raid on the Occupy Oakland encampment, has been released from the hospital. Olsen suffered a skull fracture during tear-gas filled clashes between police and demonstrators on Oct. 25. 
 
 Dottie Guy of Iraq Veterans Against the War said Sunday Olsen was released last week. He can now read and write, but still has trouble talking, she added. 
 
 "Considering what happened to him he's doing well," Guy said. "He does have a brain injury so there will be some kind of rehab and physical therapy needed." 
 
 Occupy Wall Street supporters nationwide have rallied around Olsen's plight. 
 
 Also Sunday, for the third time in three days, Oakland city officials warned protesters that they do not have the right to camp in the plaza in front of City Hall and face immediate arrest. Police did not respond to requests for comment on whether officers were preparing to forcibly clear the camp. 
 
 The eviction notices come as officials across the country urged an end to similar gatherings in the wake of three deaths in different cities, including two by gunfire. Demands for Oakland protesters to pack up increased after a man was shot and killed Thursday near the encampment site. 
 
 Police officials have said a preliminary investigation suggested the shooting resulted from a fight between two groups of men at or near the encampment. Investigators do not know if the men in the fight were associated with Occupy Oakland, but protesters said there was no connection between the shooting and the camp. 
 
 The shooting occurred the same day a 35-year-old military veteran apparently committed suicide in a tent at a Burlington, Vt., Occupy encampment. Police said a preliminary investigation showed the veteran fatally shot himself in the head. They said the death raised questions about whether the protest would be allowed to continue. 
 
 In other cities over the weekend: 
 
 _ In Salt Lake City, police arrested 19 people Saturday when protesters refused to leave a park a day after a man as found dead inside his tent at the encampment. The arrests came after police moved into the park early in the evening where protesters had been ordered to leave by the end of the day. About 150 people had been living in the camp there for weeks. 
 
 _ In Albany, N.Y., police arrested 24 Occupy Albany protesters after they defied an 11 p.m. curfew in a state-owned park. State police officials hauled away the protesters after warning them with megaphones that they were breaking the law in Lafayette Park. They were charged with trespassing. 
 
 _ In Denver, authorities forced protesters to leave a downtown encampment and arrested four people for interfering with officers who removed illegally pitched tents, said police spokesman Sonny Jackson. 
 
 _ In San Francisco, violence marked the protest Saturday where police said two demonstrators attacked two police officers in separate incidents during a march. Police spokesman Carlos Manfredi said a protester slashed an officer's hand with a pen knife while another protester shoved an officer, causing facial cuts. He said neither officer was seriously hurt, and the assailants couldn't be located. 
 
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 Associated Press writers Terry Collins in Oakland, Josh Loftin in Salt Lake City, Jim Anderson in Denver and Andrew Dalton in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
– 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.