At least three protesters were removed from a Minneapolis city council meeting on Friday after they voiced their disapproval over how city leaders have handled the investigation of Sunday’s police killing of an unarmed African-American man.
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Protesters have been camped at the police station since Jamar Clark, 24, was shot last Sunday.
A sign on the sidewalk near the protests outside the Fourth Precinct in north Minneapolis.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The troubled past that Jamar Clark struggled for years to escape now hangs over the investigation into his death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
For a period on Wednesday, several protesters occupied the station’s main entrance, as well as the vestibule inside the building.
The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating.
They say release of any information, including any video, would be “extremely detrimental” to the independent investigation that the Justice Department and FBI are conducting into whether Clark’s death violated any federal laws.
An activist group is calling on police in Minneapolis to identify the officer involved in the shooting of a black man over the weekend.
Protesters are accusing police of abuse during protests that escalated after Clark, who was shot in the head, died Monday.
Dayton says he is asking those who are grieving to behave in ways that don’t cause further damage to people’s lives and property.
The protesters interrupted a regular city council meeting to complain about the way the city handles police misconduct issues. She told Friday’s crowd she wants police to treat community with respect, “as if we were members of your own family”.
The activists were advised that the public is welcome to attend City Council meetings, but rules require those in attendance to refrain from disruptions.
Hodges and Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton met on Friday with Cornell William Brooks, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which has joined protests and pressured for release of videos that might clarify the shooting.
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Police said they were responding to an assault call Sunday in which Clark was a suspect when they arrived to find Clark interfering with paramedics trying to treat the injured woman.
