A Black man Jamar Clark has died after Minneapolis pigs shoot him execution style in the head..
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And these are how people that are supposed to "protect" us act smfh.
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And these are how people that are supposed to "protect" us act smfh.
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"4. We want community oversight with full disciplinary power"
i remember when this was discussed on The Wire
I bet you'd see Police Unions co-sign Indiana-style "Legal to Shoot Cops in Self-Defense" laws before they agree to THAT..... -
Minneapolis police shooting stirs old racial tensions
The Associated Press
The fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a Minneapolis police officer has pushed racial tensions in the city's small but concentrated minority community to the fore, with a police precinct besieged by a makeshift encampment and hundreds of protesters in recent days.
Police have tried to improve race relations in recent years, and succeeded in some areas. But some community activists say racial disparities — high unemployment rates for blacks, a disproportionate number of arrests for minor crimes and inequities in housing and the school system — have been going on for so long that Sunday's shooting of Jamar Clark, and the reaction from the community, was no surprise.
"We call Minneapolis a tale of two cities: The best of times if you're white, and worst of times if you're black," said Nekima Levy-Pounds, president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP, and one of 42 people arrested when protesters shut down an interstate highway Monday night.
Clark, 24, was shot in the head during a confrontation with two officers. Police said he was a suspect in an assault and was interfering with paramedics trying to treat the victim. Police said there was a scuffle, and Clark was shot. Some people who say they saw the shooting claim Clark wasn't struggling and was handcuffed. Police initially said he wasn't handcuffed, but the state agency that's investigating the shooting, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said one thing it's looking at is whether Clark was restrained.
The president of the Minneapolis police union, Lt. Bob Kroll, said Wednesday in an email that Clark was "disarming" the officer and was not handcuffed.
The officers involved in the shooting were identified Wednesday as Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze, both with seven years of experience including 13 months with the Minneapolis department, but their race wasn't released because it's private under state law. Police in Maple Grove, where Ringgenberg worked before joining the Minneapolis force, said he is white.
Members of the Minneapolis chapter of Black Lives Matter and other demonstrators want police to release video of the shooting, but the BCA has declined to do so, saying it would taint the investigation. The FBI is also undertaking a civil rights investigation.
Tensions ramped up Wednesday afternoon when police moved to clear protesters out of the vestibule of the 4th Precinct station where several had been sleeping since the shooting. They pulled down a pop-up shelter and doused a bonfire, prompting protesters to chant, "Shame on you!" before relighting the flame.
Chief Janee Harteau said police have to keep the vestibule clear for safety. She said police have no plans to pull down some 18 tents or stop protests as long as they are peaceful.
As the confrontation extended into the night, police used a chemical irritant to control the crowd of scores of protesters swelling outside the precinct office. Chemical spray was also directed at officers from the crowd, police spokesman John Elder said.
The department tweeted that police used the irritant after officers trying to remove tarps had rocks and bottles thrown at them. Police said they also fired one marking round to identify a man who was throwing bricks.
Police later reported that several officers sustained minor injuries from the items that were thrown and said several squad cars were damaged during the demonstration.
The protests are the latest call for change by a community that has had rocky relations with police.
Sunday's shooting took place on the north side, where the population is predominantly black and generally poorer than the rest of the city. The four neighborhoods nearest the shooting are 53 percent black, according to 2010 census data. The city as a whole is 60 percent white.
Chuck Samuelson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Minnesota, said tension has risen as police have stepped up their presence in high-crime areas. An ACLU study earlier this year found black people are nearly nine times more likely to be arrested for low-level offenses in Minneapolis than white people.
"African-American males feel like they are targeted by police because, frankly, they are," Samuelson said.
Levy-Pounds said several high-profile cases have increased mistrust of police, including the 2013 death of Terrance Franklin and the 2006 death of Fong Lee, both shot by police.
Franklin, who was black, was being chased by police in a suspected burglary when he broke into a home. Police said he struggled with officers, grabbing a police weapon and shooting and wounding two officers before he was shot 10 times. A grand jury cleared officers in his death, but Levy-Pounds called it "a case of murder of a young African-American man at the hands of Minneapolis police."
In the case of Lee, a 19-year-old son of Laotian immigrants, the officer who shot and killed him in north Minneapolis said he feared for his life. A jury ruled the officer didn't use excessive force.
Don Samuels, a black former City Council member who represented the north side, said there's a sense of wariness anytime a black man gets killed or shot by police, and people wonder if a white man in the same situation would have been shot. But he pointed to a growing effort by the city and police to confront racial issues head on, to bring more officers of color on the force, and to create review boards to deal with police brutality.
Minneapolis police Deputy Chief Medaria Arradondo said the department recognizes past grievances between the African-American community and police and is working hard to build trust.
"Even in the midst of protests and demonstrations, we will continue to have important dialogue and conversations to keep moving forward," he said. -
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The oink boys maced themselves then tried to blame the protesters for doing it... -
The Minneapolis pigs picked a perfect pig union boss/white supremacist... -
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-naacp-plans-minneapolis-vigil-police-shooting-35321157The Latest: Activists Taken From Minneapolis Council Meeting
The latest in the investigation into the fatal shooting of a black man by Minneapolis police that has sparked days of demonstrations (all times local):
11:30 a.m.
Three activists were escorted from a Minneapolis City Council meeting after speaking out about the shooting of a black man by a city police officer.
Michelle Gross of Communities United Against Police Brutality was one of the activists removed from Friday's meeting. As she was escorted out, she shouted, "We will be heard. You will be held accountable for what you have done to our community."
Gross and others were speaking out about the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark. He was shot by a police officer in what authorities say was a scuffle. Some community members allege Clark was handcuffed. Police dispute that.
The activists were advised that the public is welcome to attend City Council meetings, but rules require those in attendance to refrain from disruptions.
6:25 a.m.
The nation's oldest civil rights organization is calling for a candlelight vigil and march in Minneapolis to bring attention to the latest fatal shooting of a young black man by a police officer.
NAACP national president Cornell William Brooks says the event planned for 4:30 p.m. Friday outside the 4th Precinct headquarters will increase pressure on the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of the killing of 24-year-old Jamar Clark on Sunday.
Clark was fatally wounded in what police say was a scuffle with officers responding to an assault. Some community members allege Clark was handcuffed. Police dispute that.
The shooting has prompted protests. Brooks told reporters Thursday that Clark's death "is one bad chapter in a bad national narrative of police conduct." -
http://www.10news.com/money/encounter-with-officer-named-in-minnesota-shooting-i-thought-i-was-going-to-die-111915Man had encounter with officer named in Minnesota shooting: "I thought I was going to die"
SAN DIEGO - A New Jersey man says the same officer involved in the shooting death of an unarmed man in Minnesota nearly killed him in the streets of San Diego.
Fred Clark Jr. says his encounter bears frightening similarities to what just happened in Minneapolis, which continues to prompt protests.
On Sunday, responding to a reported assault of a woman, police say her boyfriend, Jamar Clark, an unarmed black man was shot in the head during a struggle and was killed. Some witnesses claim he was handcuffed, but police deny that.
The name of the officer who pulled the trigger hasn't been released, but the names of the two officers involved have been.
“I said Jesus ? F*** No. It’s like reliving a nightmare,” said Clark Jr.
That was Clark Jr.'s response after we told him one of the officer's names. Mark Ringgenberg, whom he met in May 2010 early one morning in the Gaslamp District.
Clark was in town for his sister's wedding.
Buzzed from a night out, he says someone stepped on his foot and yelled the N-word at him, leading to a shouting match.
Just as he was going to leave, he said somebody grabbed him from behind.
“I was grabbed from behind with double-arm bars,” said Clark Jr.
Not knowing who was grabbing him, Clark Jr. says he got out of the hold and took off because he didn’t want to be jumped by the other group.
“I ran across the street, turned around and I saw the police officer. I tried to talk to him to explain and he looked angry. His partner tackled me to the ground,” said Clark Jr.
Clark says the officer then slammed his face and rubbed it into the pavement, before getting on him and putting him in a chokehold.
“I couldn't move. I couldn't breathe,” said Clark Jr.
Clark Jr. says he was cuffed and never resisted, but Ringgenberg choked him for a minute and a half, as Clark Jr.’s family and friends begged the officer to stop.
“I was just laying there and he kept saying, ‘stop resisting’ just so he could continue choking me. There was so much pressure and it went on for so long that I really thought I was going to die,” said Clark Jr.
Clark Jr. suffered cuts and a temporary eye injury – and was diagnosed with anxiety issues. He sued San Diego Police.
“I wasn’t about the money. I wanted him to not be able to hurt anyone. I didn’t want him to have a badge,” said Clark Jr.
He says he didn’t receive much interest from lawyers because his physical injuries weren’t severe. He decided to represent himself but ultimately dropped the suit because of legal costs.
Five years later, the officer is back under the legal microscope.
“He under no circumstances should be carrying a gun,” said Clark Jr.
Minneapolis police have defended the officer's actions, even as state and federal probes begin.
Ringgenberg left SDPD after the incident for a job in Minnesota. -
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The female is speaking that real ? .. But that female pig chief was clearly unmoved and didn't care... -
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So why was this brother killed....
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This place & situation just made me them to another state. I'm never gonna take my black ass too in life
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I like Governor Goofy but ? he's always ? as ? .
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http://www.startribune.com/tensions-between-black-community-police-resurface-after-shooting/352750561/Tensions between black community, police resurface after shooting
Bettie Smith stepped up to the bank of television microphones in front of the Fourth Precinct police station, her hands clasped, and made a fervent plea for justice to be served in the death of a young black man during an encounter with Minneapolis police.
“The police need to be held accountable for murdering our children,” she said.
Her words were not only about her son, Quincy, who died of cardiac arrest in 2008 after a scuffle with police, but also Jamar Clark, killed a week ago during a confrontation with police on the city’s North Side.
The circumstances around Clark’s death are murky and in deep dispute, with police union leaders saying the unarmed 24-year-old was reaching for the officer’s gun. But as protests continue and a federal civil rights investigation begins in the wake of the fatal shooting, Minneapolis is once again being forced to confront what has been one of its most chronic and high stakes problems: relations between the police and black residents of a community often burdened by crime and violence.
Some North Side residents see Clark’s shooting as the latest example of the community’s strained relationship with a police force that, historically, has rarely reflected the city’s racial and ethnic makeup.
The department has never had a black chief. The City Council’s only black member is from the Somali community — not the North Side. And although diversity in hiring has picked up in recent years, less than a quarter of Minneapolis officers are racial minorities.
The protests last week prompted Gov. Mark Dayton and influential legislators to include community and economic development measures specifically for the black community in a possible special legislative session. The emerging statewide effort comes after a recent U.S. Census report showing that income levels were down and poverty rates were up for black Minnesotans.
Police Chief Janeé Harteau said her department has made progress in its relationship with the black community, but acknowledged that more can be done.
“There certainly are some people that are very connected to history, and [Clark’s shooting] brings back things from the past, but we have done many things,” Harteau said Friday. “Every time that there was an incident, this department has evolved and tried to move forward, and tried to make things better.”
Despite recent efforts by city officials to address disparities in arrest rates — the City Council in June repealed bans on spitting and loitering, ordinances that critics said disproportionately affected blacks — the community’s wariness persists.
“You call police out of necessity, not because you trust them,” said Mel Reeves, a longtime North Side community activist. “It’s dishonest to think that we’re going to have a relationship. No, no, we’ve just learned to be tolerant of each other.”
Complicated history
Clark’s death occurred in the midst of a national debate sparked by deadly encounters between police and young black men in Baltimore, South Carolina and Ferguson, Mo. The head of the national NAACP led a candlelight vigil Friday, and both the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice have stepped in, at the request of Mayor Betsy Hodges and with Harteau’s approval, to investigate Clark’s death.
Police have said Clark, whose criminal record included a conviction for first-degree robbery, was shot in an altercation with officers after he interfered with a paramedic assisting his girlfriend, the victim of an assault. Witnesses have said Clark was handcuffed and forced to the ground.
An autopsy showed Clark died of a gunshot to the head. The officers involved in the shooting, Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze, were placed on paid leave.
Despite the federal investigation, protesters have expressed skepticism and demanded more information, including the release of videos of the incident.
For some longtime North Siders, Clark’s death stirred memories of the police shootings of Tycel Nelson and Terrance Franklin, whose deaths also set off protests and heightened calls for a culture change at the police department.
“There’s nothing unfortunately different about this, other than the name of the victim, and the name of the perpetrator,” said Ron Edwards, a longtime civil rights activist.
Black residents have also expressed concerns about being singled out by police in less obvious ways.
One department-sponsored study found nearly two-thirds of those arrested by police over the past six years were blacks, who make up less than 20 percent of the city’s population. An American Civil Liberties Union study suggested blacks were significantly more likely than whites to be arrested for low-level crimes like marijuana possession (11.5 times more likely) and disorderly conduct (9 times).
Shvonne Johnson, a college professor and lifelong North Side resident, said she joined a community group and frequently protested for police accountability after repeatedly seeing black motorists pulled over for seemingly minor traffic offenses. She said she’s also witnessed people being beaten by officers.
“These are the types of things that send messages to the community and instill fear,” she said.
Of the 29 people killed by Minneapolis officers in incidents involving use of force since 2000, 18 were black, according to a Star Tribune analysis of news and police reports, and death certificate data. Not all of those victims were unarmed, and department policy says Minneapolis officers are authorized to use deadly force when a suspect “creates a substantial risk of causing death or great ? harm.”
The city has paid out more than $6 million in alleged cases of police misconduct since 2012. The largest of those settlements — $2.19 million — went to the family of Dominic Felder, a black man who was shot and killed by two officers in 2006.
Lt. Bob Kroll, president of the Minneapolis police union, said he didn’t dispute the statistics, but asked the public not to rush to judgment in the Clark case.
“What do you do to change it? I don’t know,” Kroll said. “All I can say is our cops are not out there hunting people, that’s for damn sure.”
Efforts to improve
Some community activists say hiring more black officers would go a long way to restoring community confidence in law enforcement. In 2003, a federal mediation board recommended the department hire more minority and female officers.
As of October, 22 percent of Minneapolis’ approximately 800 officers were ethnic minorities, according to department statistics, up from 18 percent in 2011. Next year’s 32-member class of community service officers includes 22 candidates of color.
Harteau said she has taken a hard stance on problem officers, firing six in her tenure, including two who were caught using racial slurs in Green Bay, Wis. She invited the Justice Department to overhaul the department’s training system to identify officers who need more instruction.
Earlier this year, the city was selected for a Justice Department pilot program focused on “racial reconciliation, procedural justice and implicit bias.” And the city has set aside $1.1 million to outfit officers with body cameras — a tool that many hope will help with transparency and trust.
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