Police have disputed that.
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The BCA claims the investigation will take two to four months to complete.
The first man was arrested at 11:20 a.m.in Bloomington. Police have not commented on this part of the incident, according to The NY Times. His death has sparked days of protests.
The police, however, have not yet confirmed a connection between the shooting and the protest.
“There’s nothing in there that’s going to provide any confirmation for this view that the officers acted as some allege they did”, Dayton said.
“We appreciate Black Lives Matter for holding it down and keeping the protests peaceful”, Sutton said.
Protesters say that grand juries seldom hand up charges against police. A day later, he was back at the scene, walking with a cane after being hit in the left leg and treated at a hospital. Martin says he’s “feeling better than yesterday”. Police have said McDonald was high on PCP, acting erratically and lunged at the officers with a knife. Police have said Clark was interfering with paramedics tending to his girlfriend. When the masked men wouldn’t identify themselves, Black Lives Matter protesters escorted them away, but after about a half-block, the men opened fire on the demonstrators. All had injuries that were not life-threatening.
A 37-year-old Chicago police officer who fatally shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in October 2014 has been charged with first-degree murder.
Police earlier arrested a 23-year-old white man in the shootings.
The search continues for one more shooting suspect, police said. Monday’s protest continued after the shooting, with about 200 people sitting around campfires in the freezing morning hours.
Large-scale demonstrations were held across the country in 2014 after a series of high-profile incidents of white police officers killing unarmed African-American men, including Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; Tamir Rice in Cleveland, OH; Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY and Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina. When protesters followed the men to their auto, at least one of the supposed supremacists fired on the Black Lives Matter supporters.
Officers are still seeking two other white male suspects.
Protesters, some who have been camped outside the station for more than a week, said they “will not bow to fear” or “intimidation”, during a brief press conference on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. Several witnesses said that police restrained Clark and there was no reason for police to shoot him.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the crowd outside the 4th Precinct was continuing to grow, in spite of requests from Clark’s family to end the protest. Wronski-Riley said that at this point the men “turned around and without warning and started shooting at us … everything was super chaotic”. Police had yet to release their names Tuesday night.
“The shooting last night of protesters in Minneapolis at an ongoing demonstration for Jamar Clark is both horrific and tragic. But in light of tonight’s shootings, the family feels out of imminent concern for the safety of the occupiers, we must get the occupation of the Fourth Precinct ended and onto the next step”. People also went to the police area close to where the shooting happened. No one was in custody, and police were asking anyone with information to come forward.
Since November 15, the Black Lives Matter movement, supplemented by the NAACP, has moved into Minneapolis in force.
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The gunshot victims were taken to North Memorial Medical Center and Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), deputy police chief Medaria Arradondo said at the scene.
