Police say they were responding to an assault call in which Clark was a suspect and arrived to find Clark interfering with paramedics trying to treat the injured woman.
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A circle of more than 100 people gathered in front of the Minneapolis Police Department’s Fourth Precinct on Thursday night, chanting, “Show us the tapes”.
While civil rights leaders are calling on Minneapolis police to practice use restraint in handling protesters, the police union head said they should become more rigorous after an evening of hostile face-offs over an officer’s deadly shooting of a black man.
Protesters, who have demanded release of video footage of the incident, say Clark was unarmed and handcuffed when he was shot.
President Brooks is also scheduled to meet with Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges today to discuss the case and police tactics employed during the shooting and against protesters in recent days. An attorney for one of the officers involved in the shooting says Clark was not handcuffed, went for an officer’s weapon and “had manual control” of that officer’s gun.
Skepticism over police accounts has grown among protesters.
Officers said they had been hit with rocks, bricks, bottles, pepper spray, and Molotov cocktails, according to Police Chief Janee Harteau.
Three members of the group Communities United Against Police Brutality were escorted out of the council chambers four minutes after the meeting started.
He also plans to attend a 4:30 p.m. rally and candlelight vigil outside the 4th Precinct, the Star Tribune reports. “We also received multiple complaints from residents who were unable to gain entry to speak with our officers and investigators”. The race of the two officers has not been released, nor does the public know which officer fired the shot that killed Clark. “We must come together to heal our community and wok together toward justice and fairness”. Evans, superintendent of the BCA, said the recordings do not show the event in its entirety.
Jamar Clark, 24, died on Monday night after his family made a decision to disconnect life support.
Police deployed a chemical irritant against demonstrators outside a north Minneapolis police station Wednesday evening where protesters have organized since the incident.
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Tellisha Lipford, a 12-year-old who lives a few blocks from the Fourth Precinct and the scene of Clark’s death, said she and her peers haven’t talked about Clark’s death in any of her classes.
