A Black man Jamar Clark has died after Minneapolis pigs shoot him execution style in the head..
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Minneapolis protests erupt after police shoot black man allegedly in handcuffs
http://gawker.com/black-lives-matter-protesting-police-shooting-of-an-all-1742691581
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AcCJtpzjeE
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http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/11/16/black-lives-matter-protesters-shut-down-i-94-in-minneapolis/
Minneapolis protests erupt after police shoot black man allegedly in handcuffs
A Minnesota agency is investigating the shooting by a Minneapolis police officer of a black man suspected in an assault, an incident that sparked protests and prompted a community forum with the mayor and police chief.
Accounts from some witnesses that the man was handcuffed when he was shot early on Sunday morning led to outrage. Police said their preliminary investigation shows the man was not handcuffed, but the investigation is ongoing.
Jason Sole, chair of the Minneapolis NAACP’s criminal justice committee, said many black residents of north Minneapolis are upset.
“We have been saying for a significant amount of time that Minneapolis is one bullet away from Ferguson,” he said, referring to the police shooting of Michael Brown last year in the St Louis suburb that prompted nationwide protests. “That bullet was fired last night. We want justice immediately,” Sole told Minnesota Public Radio News.
The shooting happened after police said they were called to north Minneapolis around 12.45am on Sunday for a report of an assault. When they arrived, the man had returned and was interfering with paramedics who were assisting the victim, police said. Officers tried to calm him, but there was a struggle.
At some point, an officer fired at least once, hitting the man, police said. Witnesses told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that there was a big crowd at the scene, and bystanders became agitated as police pushed them back. Some witnesses said police used a chemical irritant on the crowd.
Authorities have declined to release the man’s name, but the Minneapolis NAACP cited family members and witnesses in identifying him as Jamar Clark.
Martez McKnight, 22, told the Associated Press that Clark, his uncle, was put on life support after he was taken to a hospital.
“The family is heartbroken and traumatized by the whole event,” McKnight said.
A statement on Sunday night from state representative Raymond Dehn, who represents the area, said Clark was on life support.
Police and a spokeswoman for the Hennepin County medical center said they could not comment on the man’s condition.
Protesters organized by the group Black Lives Matter Minneapolis marched through the streets on Sunday afternoon. Some beat drums and others carried banners. The group went to a police precinct, where they banged on the door and demanded to be allowed inside.
Raeisha Williams with the Minneapolis NAACP told the AP protesters plan to stay at the precinct until the names of the officers involved are released.
Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges and police chief Janee Harteau held a listening session with the community on Sunday evening.
Steven Belton, interim president and CEO of the Minneapolis Urban League, was in attendance.
“There is so much anger and pain, and it’s combined with a lack of information,” Belton said.
Harteau said after the meeting that “misinformation” is being spread about the case, but she would not elaborate.
The chief said she has asked the state bureau of criminal apprehension to conduct an independent investigation.
“We need to know exactly what happened, we need to know the truth,” she said. “Everyone involved needs that and deserves that.”
Two officers are on paid leave, standard practice after such an incident.
Drew Evans, BCA superintendent, said the agency wants to talk to anyone who saw the shooting or might have video of it. When asked about the handcuffs, Evans said there were handcuffs at the scene, but added that authorities are working to determine the exact situation when the man was shot.
http://gawker.com/black-lives-matter-protesting-police-shooting-of-an-all-1742691581
All these reports cite witnesses who say Clark was handcuffed when he was shot. A family member reportedly told the Star Tribune that Clark was shot “in the head, execution style.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AcCJtpzjeEUpdate:
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/11/16/black-lives-matter-protesters-shut-down-i-94-in-minneapolis/
Late Monday evening, a family member told WCCO Clark was taken off life support and passed away.
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(DMX voice) Here we go again
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Accounts from some witnesses that the man was handcuffed when he was shot early on Sunday morning led to outrage. Police said their preliminary investigation shows the man was not handcuffed, but the investigation is ongoing.
Come on black folk... if u are a witness to another black person being arrested by cops why not record it??? Dont just stand there "witnessing" events that pigs can lie about.. -
We have to stay strong for him..
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http://www.startribune.com/black-lives-matter-wants-video-of-man-s-shooting-by-minneapolis-police-released/350570871/Black Lives Matter encampment digs in, issues demands in wake of police shooting
Activists in an encampment kept up their presence Monday by blocking the main entrance to the Police Department’s precinct headquarters in north Minneapolis and occupying the atrium in the wake of police shooting and critically wounding a man over the weekend.
The activists have alleged that 24-year-old Jamar Clark, who is black, was unarmed and handcuffed when he was shot early Sunday on the street in the 1600 block of Plymouth Avenue N. during a struggle with police.
Police Chief Janeé Harteau has said her department’s “preliminary” finding is that Clark was not cuffed by officers who were responding to a report that Clark was assaulting his girlfriend. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is leading the shooting investigation.
The last word from police was that Clark was being treated at Hennepin County Medical Center. They have yet to disclose his condition. Nekima Levy-Pounds, president of the Minneapolis NAACP, countered that Clark had been “shot and killed” by police.
Clark’s relatives gathered Sunday at HCMC, where a physician told them that their loved one was brain dead. Clark was shot “in the head, execution style,” a family member said.
Kandace Montgomery, a Black Lives Matter organizer, told reporters outside the precinct headquarters Monday morning that protesters have been in the atrium since midafternoon Sunday and will remain until their demands are met: release by police of any video that might exist of the shooting, disclosure of the names of the officers involved, and the start of a federal investigation into the shooting.
The activists have pitched tents at the Fourth Precinct entrance and draped a Black Lives Matter banner above the locked doors. The shooting occured a few blocks to the east of the protest site.
“Mass media and police want us to believe that Jamar was at fault for this shooting,” Montgomery said in a statement earlier Monday, “but we know that’s not true because of the several matching eyewitness accounts that he was executed [as part of] the continued killings of unarmed black people across the country.”
Clark’s father, James Hill, spoke to the news media and said, “My son wasn’t a bad kid. ... The police don’t care, the mayor don’t care, the police [chief] don’t care because they’re going to cover up for each other. My son’s got to get a stand somewhere, and I’m here to give him a stand.”
Hill said that his son’s “brain is dead. We are just waiting to pull the plug.”
Bettie Smith, whose 24-year-old son, Quincy, died in 2008 during a police arrest in Minneapolis, expressed her frustration with the actions of the officers in Clark’s shooting and with the explanations so far from police about the circumstances surrounding the confrontation.
“That is the worst call you can possibly get, that your child is murdered,” Smith said. “[The police] know your child is dead when they took him to the hospital. … But they are covering it up.”
She went on to say that “the police need to be held accountable for murdering our children. None of our children deserve to be shot and killed and talked about like they’re some kind of animals.”
John Martin, a North Side activist, took to the podium after the parents and said, “We’re going to stay here until we find out what happened.”
Clark was shot during a struggle with an officer, according to police, who added that the suspect had been interfering with efforts by emergency responders to treat his girlfriend following the alleged assault outside an apartment building about 12:45 a.m.
Two officers have been placed on standard administrative leave following the incident. -
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? , can we make it to Thanksgiving without some ? goin down with cops?
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http://www.startribune.com/black-lives-matter-wants-video-of-man-s-shooting-by-minneapolis-police-released/350570871/Mpls. officials ask federal authorities to investigate police shooting
Minneapolis city officials are asking federal authorities to step in to investigate Saturday’s police shooting of a man in north Minneapolis.
Mayor Betsy Hodges and Police Chief Janeé Harteau announced the request Monday afternoon in a press conference with the leaders of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety and the Department of Human Rights.
The move follows 24 hours of protests near the shooting scene and at the Police Department’s Fourth Precinct headquarters, where demonstrators camped out overnight and called for an independent investigation of the incident.
Activists in an encampment kept up their presence Monday by blocking the main entrance to the Police Department’s precinct headquarters in north Minneapolis and occupying the atrium in the wake of police shooting and critically wounding a man over the weekend.
Damn.. Where have I've seen this movie at before.. Smh.. I sure the Feds will be very helpful in the coverup investigation... -
http://www.whdh.com/story/30525106/minneapolis-mayor-seeks-federal-investigation-into-shootingMinneapolis mayor seeks federal investigation into shooting
By AMY FORLITI and KYLE POTTER
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The mayor of Minneapolis said Monday that she requested a federal civil rights investigation into the weekend shooting of a black man by a police officer during an apparent struggle.
Mayor Betsy Hodges said she sent an email to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and to the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota to ask for a civil rights investigation in the "interest of transparency and community confidence." The state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is already conducting a criminal investigation, but Hodges said the city needs "all the tools we have available to us."
Authorities have released few details about the shooting, which has enraged some community members after witnesses said the man was handcuffed when he was shot. Police said their initial information showed the man, a suspect in an assault, was not handcuffed. The incident sparked protests and an overnight encampment at a police precinct on the city's north side. Community members and activists called for a federal investigation, as well as for authorities to release video of the incident and the officer's identity.
Two officers are on paid leave, standard practice after such an incident. Police Chief Janee Harteau said the officers were not wearing body cameras. When asked if squad car video was available, she said that it was part of the investigation.
Nekima Levy-Pounds, president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP, said the request for a federal investigation is a step in the right direction, "given that we do not trust Minnesota law enforcement officials to hold themselves accountable."
Police initially said they were called to north Minneapolis around 12:45 a.m. Sunday following a report of an assault. When they arrived, a man was interfering with paramedics who were assisting the victim, police said. Officers tried to calm him, but there was a struggle. At some point, an officer fired at least once, hitting the man, police said.
Authorities have not released the man's name, but family members identified him as Jamar Clark, 24, and said he was on life support. His father, James Hill, told The Associated Press that his son suffered a single gunshot wound over his left eye.
Martez McKnight, Clark's nephew, said the family "is heartbroken and traumatized by the whole event."
Protesters demanded that the officer who shot Clark be arrested.
"None of our children deserve to be shot and killed, and then talked about like they are animals," Bettie Smith, whose son Quincy Smith died in a 2008 confrontation with police, said at a news conference outside the precinct.
"Unless the community steps up to help us out, it will continue. Each and every one of us out here would be held accountable if we murdered someone," she added.
Ramona Dohman, the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, said the officers' identities would be released after investigators interview them. She said these types of investigations take time, and it's hard to predict when authorities will have answers.
Harteau said she welcomed a federal investigation.
"Everyone involved needs and deserves the truth and the facts," she said.
Gov. Mark Dayton also issued a statement saying he supported the request for a federal probe.
Community members began protesting Sunday afternoon, with some demonstrators camping at the police station overnight. Hodges and Harteau held a listening session with the community Sunday evening, during which some citizens shouted in anger. The protests continued through Monday.
Authorities said protesters broke a window at the precinct and also damaged two police vehicles, including a marked squad car in which all the windows and a camera were broken, and an expletive was scratched into the hood. One person was arrested in connection with damage to an unmarked police car.
The protests are just the latest expression of tension between the department and minorities in the city.
Outrage and a civil lawsuit followed the 2013 death of 22-year-old Terrance Franklin, a burglary suspect whom police pursued and shot in a Minneapolis basement. A grand jury declined to indict the officers involved.
In 2014, a prominent civil rights activist Al Flowers complained of being the victim of brutality when police served a warrant on a relative at his home. Police say Flowers instigated their aggression.
The rocky relations have led to discussions between police and minorities and the creation of task forces designed to quell concerns. A special civilian review authority was formed after the death of an elderly black couple during a botched drug raid decades ago.
This spring, Minneapolis was selected for a federal Justice Department program to rebuild trust between police and the communities they patrol.
KG Wilson, a peace activist who just retired weeks ago after 11 years of building relationships between the community and the police department, said he's hurt by the reaction he is seeing and disagrees with the protests.
"I hate that this is going on right now. My heart is so crushed. I have not stopped crying," he said, adding that some protesters are looking for an excuse to be angry. "I think everything is being gone about in the wrong way. ... Peace is always the way. You can't bring peace with aggression."
I'm so tired of these old ass kumbaya ? .. If that kumbaya ? worked.. Why are ? out here being picked off by pigs left and right... -
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http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/11/16/black-lives-matter-protesters-shut-down-i-94-in-minneapolis/Black Lives Matter Protesters Arrested After Shutting Down I-94 In Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Protesters with Black Lives Matter shut down Interstate 94 near downtown Minneapolis Monday night for several hours.
Hundreds of protesters have the westbound side of the highway closed from 7th St. to Broadway. It’s in response to the officer-involved shooting of Jamar Clark. Protesters hit the highway shortly before 7 p.m, marching up to a halt near the Broadway Avenue exit. Google traffic data indicated cars were at a standstill down to the Lyndale Avenue exit.
The same group protested outside the Minneapolis Police Department’s 4th precinct Sunday night.
Police say there was a struggle when they tried to arrest Jamar Clark early Sunday morning. Officers were responding to a report of a man assaulting a woman on Plymouth Avenue North. On the way to that call, police were notified that the suspect was interfering with paramedics. That’s when the struggle ensued and officers shot Clark.
Late Monday evening, a family member told WCCO Clark was taken off life support and passed away.
Initially, police were routing traffic down the side of a hill onto East Lyndale Avenue North, but protesters eventually blocked those cars, too.
Authorities at the scene ordered protesters to disperse from the highway at about 8 p.m. If they didn’t follow orders, they could be arrested.
Arrests began at around 9 p.m. Protesters were taken into police custody one-by-one, but enough remained to keep traffic blocked. -
Let's pray 4 paris tho...
We gotta to stay focus on us. And ? spike lee -
You mess up you suffer the consequences, why do these people always coverup for the police when they're in the wrong. Rhetorical question.
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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/17/jamar-clark-51-arrests-at-protests-over-minneapolis-shooting-by-policeJamar Clark: 51 arrests at protests over Minneapolis shooting by police
Police detained 51 people after a night of protests in Minneapolis over the shooting of Jamar Clark during an arrest.
Police have said Clark was shot following a struggle when they tried to arrest him, but family members insist he was shot “execution-style” and witnesses have said he was already in handcuffs.
On Monday the Minneapolis mayor, Betsy Hodges, asked for help from the Department of Justice in investigating Clark’s death, and Minnesota congressman Keith Ellison wrote to attorney general Loretta Lynch formally requesting an investigation.
This failed to fully satisfy activists, community leaders and protesters, who took to the streets on Monday for the second night in a row. They assembled outside the Minneapolis police fourth precinct building – less than 100 metres from the small makeshift shrine which marks the spot where Clark was shot and gravely wounded – and demanded the release of video footage from the shooting.
Protesters closed the road, put up tents outside the precinct including a makeshift canteen, and built a fire pit. Outside in the street activists chanted “Handcuffs, don’t shoot!” - a variation on the “Hands up, don’t shoot” refrain of the Black Lives Matter movement since the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
One man, particularly agitated, swore and yelled: “This man was murdered.” There were children present and several people chastised him for cursing in front of them. He continued to shout; around him, people formed a circle and chanted the Lord’s Prayer. In the center of the circle, the man still jumped and shouted. Over their words, his voice, hoarse with screaming, could be heard. “Tell ? to bring Jamar back,” he yelled. After a while a friend arrived to calm him down.
From the precinct building at around 6.45pm, a larger group of around 300 protesters marched to interstate 94, where they blockaded the freeway for several hours. One of them, 36-year-old Airy Collins, from Minneapolis, told the Guardian that Clark’s shooting “seemed like another blatant smack in the face to me and I knew it was time to act immediately … it didn’t take a moment for me to jump off my couch.”
Collins, like many others there, was returning for a second day of protest. “[We’re] feeling united, people are united,” she said.
“And we’re tired. We’re sick and tired of the same old politics as usual, and now we have to start bringing it to the streets, because people are fed up.” She echoed the protesters’ demand for the video to be released. As she spoke, others – including several children – were dancing on the freeway in the flashing lights of police cars.
The road was blocked for several hours. Police began routing cars down the bank to get them out of the gridlock; one car got stuck.
By 9pm the protest on I-94 was reduced to a core of roughly 50 people, linking arms across the road. From the embankment on the side many more watched and chanted encouragement. Police, approaching from both directions along the carriageway, slowly closed in on them. A few escaped by running down the embankment but most of the rest were arrested.
After receiving four dispersal warnings, 43 adults and eight juveniles were arrested, according to Tiffani Schweigart, the public information officer for the Minnesota State police. All of the arrests were made on I-94 and were without violent incident, Schweigart said.
Both the adults and the juveniles were to be charged with unlawful assembly, and being a pedestrian on the freeway – a misdemeanor offence in Minnesota. They would all be released the same night when they posted bail, Schweigart said.
Back at the precinct building the crowd had grown in size to around a hundred as people returned from I-94 blockade in dribs and drabs. The atmosphere was less tense than it had been a few hours earlier. One man spoke through the loudhailer. “All lives matter!” he said. A woman grabbed it from him. “No,” she said. “That won’t be true until black lives matter.” -
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/11/17/black-lives-matter-occupies-4th-precinctBlack Lives Matter demonstrators dig in at Mpls. police precinct
The entrance to the Minneapolis Police Department's Fourth Precinct has been occupied by Black Lives Matter demonstrators since Sunday, when officers shot Jamar Clark, a black man in his 20s.
The rain didn't deter people from gathering outside the precinct Monday morning — the crowd grew larger as the day went on. A supporter even started a fire pit to keep people warm, placing firewood inside some tents. Food, water and sleeping bags were stacked in others.
On the wet sidewalk, next to a lawn dotted with red and blue tents, Cameron Clark, a cousin of Jamar Clark, talked with a group of black men.
It's just not right what happened to his cousin, he said.
"Just because you have a badge on ... and then you ? someone, and then you're still getting paid? He should be locked up," Clark said. "You should be prosecuted. And my cousin deserves justice because he should still be here right now.
Behind Clark, supporters talked quietly under tents, some visibly tired, clutching cups of donated coffee or worn-out signs. Past a large Black Lives Matter banner, a group of women were sleeping behind a glass door. The entranceway to the police headquarters is the size of small closet, but at least eight people were packed on the floor.
Inside, from a wall intercom, a phone rang for hours, but the women inside didn't even hear it. Some of them had slept there for 24 hours, others, like Khadra Abdi Ali of Bloomington, rotate in.
"The community has done a great job at making us feel very comfortable," she said. "They brought in hot thermos bags, they brought in tons of food, a bunch of blankets, so we're really warm right now, and very comfortable."
When asked why she was camped out at police headquarters, she replied: Justice for Jamar.
"Justice, for me, is indicting the officer who got away with this atrocity," she said.
Minneapolis police officials have asked the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the shooting. And while the investigation is underway, police chief Janee Harteau said she won't release the names of the officers involved — or any other details about the shooting.
That's unacceptable for Miski Noor, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Minneapolis, who said she wants authorities to release video of the incident that a security camera near the scene may have captured.
"We made a decision to stay here until our demands are met, or we're arrested," Noor said. "So we're not going anywhere until we see some movement on getting the tapes released."
Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges has asked the Justice Department to review the investigation. Noor said that's not enough.
"We have a lot more work to do, right? Jamar Clark is just one case. This is systemic. Violence on black bodies happens every single day in a multitude of ways," Noor said. "The system does not work for us. And it needs to be completely torn down. We need a new system that actually represents black people and other people of color."
Leaning against the glass doorway, Mica Grimm nodded in agreement.
"I believe that our state officials need to call for a special session for Black Lives Matter," she said. "I think we need to talk about the issues that are affecting not only this community on the north side, but people in Brooklyn Center, people who live in Northfield, people who are in Duluth, people who are in St. Cloud. We've heard awful stories of racism. How can we say that's OK? How can we not do something more for people in the state of Minnesota? We have to."
That's how Wintana Melekin sees it, too. She sat against a heater that demonstrators said was shut down overnight.
"We have all these Fortune 500's, all these nonprofits, but we're not addressing the real issues, because we keep addressing little pieces of the problem, instead of addressing the actual system," she said. "And so I want to take it to the Legislature, continue to take it to the city, and then continue to fight for it, and whoever gets in our way, will get un-elected."
All of the women said they will help to occupy the Fourth Precinct until they are either arrested or police release the surveillance video. -
http://www.startribune.com/officers-talk-to-bca-about-fatal-shooting-by-police-of-jamar-clark/351383981/
Union chief: Jamar Clark was going for Minneapolis officer's gun
The head of the Minneapolis police union said Wednesday that Jamar Clark was disarming one of the officers and was not handcuffed at the time gunfire from an officer’s weapon fatally struck the 24-year-old man in the head.
Union President Lt. Bob Kroll repeated his earlier contentions that Clark was not wearing handcuffs, as some witnesses have alleged, during his confrontation early Sunday with officers on the street in north Minneapolis. Clark died the next day.
Also Wednesday, the two officers were identified by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension: They are Mark Ringgenberg, 30, who has been a police officer for seven years, including 13 months with Minneapolis, and Dustin Schwarze, 28, who also has been a police officer for seven years, including 13 months with Minneapolis.
The two met Tuesday night with BCA investigators, Kroll said. The officers have been on standard paid administrative leave since the shooting.
Soon after the officers’ identities were publicized, the Police Department released the officers’ employment files. They showed:
Ringgenberg joined the Minneapolis force in September 2014 after 2½ years with the Maple Grove Police Department. Before that, he was a San Diego police officer from July 2008 to March 2012.
Schwarze also became a Minneapolis officer in September 2014. He came from the Richfield Police Department after being on that force for almost six years. He also was a community service officer with the Brooklyn Park Police Department for two years, a Mall of America security guard for a month and a member of the Champlin Police Department’s explorer program for nearly three years.
Not yet released by the department are any disciplinary actions against either officer while on the Minneapolis force. A department representative said that information was under review by a department official in internal affairs. Neither officer has received any awards or commendations as Minneapolis officers.
Also Wednesday afternoon, activists camped outside the Police Department’s Fourth Precinct headquarters were hustled off the property by officers. Dozens of officers emerged from the station and ran toward the protesters camped out front, where they had been for the past few days.
Several people who had camped in the station’s foyer since Sunday were also removed. Officers chased a man who allegedly threw something at them and arrested him. A Black Lives Matter banner that had hung over the station’s entrance was torn down.
Metal barricades were placed in front of the building, and uniformed officers formed a line out front. Verbal exchanges between protesters and officers were heated but not physical.
Police Chief Janeé Harteau was on the scene and said the decision to break up the protesters’ presence was made after her department received numerous complaints. Traffic in front on Plymouth Avenue has been having trouble getting by, and large amounts of garbage have piled up.
Clark, 24, of Minneapolis, was shot during what police described as a struggle on the street in the 1600 block of Plymouth Avenue N. about 12:45 a.m. Sunday. Police say Clark was involved in an assault of his girlfriend and that he was hindering emergency responders from tending to her before his altercation with officers began.
Police spokesman John Elder said that police are withholding the identity of the woman and details about her condition because “it is tied into the officer incident.”
Family members and their supporters spoke to the news media late Wednesday morning, with sister Javille Burns describing Clark as a man who would give children a dollar whenever they asked or would take off his T-shirt to give it to someone who needed it to stay warm.
“Everything that happened to him he did not deserve,” said Burns, backed by others in her family and growing increasing passionate as she continued for several minutes. “He did not deserve to be shot down like an animal.”
Clark’s relatives have said that despite several convictions for robbery and domestic assault, he had gotten his life back on track. Clark had been working for a trucking company and had started picking up shifts at a carwash, they said.
“He was a peaceful person, despite what people say about my brother,” Burns said.
Burns said she holds no ill-will toward the officers involved in her brother’s death. “I’m not angry at them. I pray for them. I pray for their souls.”
Lena Gardner, an organizer with Black Lives Matter Minneapolis, said at the media gathering that she and fellow activists will stay vocal until they are heard by the authorities.
“We want them to stop killing us,” Gardner said. “We have rung the bells loud. We are not going to take this anymore.”
At the new conference hosted by the Minneapolis Urban League, interim league President Steven Belton urged witnesses of the shooting to come forward and provide information.
Belton vowed that the black community will remain united in the pursuit of justice for Clark and his loved ones. “We have spelled out specific demands and requests,” he said. “The bottom line is justice.”
Along with the BCA investigation, the FBI is also conducting its own inquiry into whether the shooting of Clark, who was black, violated any civil rights laws.
Clark’s shooting unleashed protests in the streets almost immediately afterward. Activists blocked a section of Interstate 94 in Minneapolis on Monday night. A vigil has been maintained in the atrium and outside the Police Department’s Fourth Precinct headquarters.
In addition to seeking the release of the officers’ identities and a federal investigation into Clark’s death, Black Lives Matter wants videos that show the shooting scene to be made public. The BCA said it has several videos showing portions of the unfolding event, but they will remain out of public view until after its investigation ends, which could be two to four months from now.
The pigs are using the old he was going for my gun excuse... -
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Played soccer with one of those cops all growing up and he was above me in high school. Wild ? .
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