MStars News has learned that five people were shot in Minneapolis earlier this week when they were protesting as apart of the Black Lives Matter movement over the recent death of Jamar Clark.
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The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that Gustavsson is from Hermantown; Macey is from Pine City; Scarsella is from Lakeville, Minn.; and Backman is from Minneapolis.
Funeral plans are set for a black man whose fatal shooting by Minneapolis police has sparked protests. Following the shooting, we know now that all five victims are suffering from non-life-threatening injuries and are expected to live, and on Tuesday, police announced that they had made two arrests, one of a 32-year-old Hispanic male and another of a 23-year-old Caucasian male.
Pastor Jayme Ali of God of All Truth Church says protesters will hold what she called an “emergency rally” on Wednesday at the city’s north side police precinct near where 24-year-old Jamar Clark died.
Clark’s funeral service was preceded by a two-hour viewing, during which a seemingly unending stream of family filed past the casket, Clark’s face covered with a thin white veil. He was one of the five protesters shot Monday night.
In a statement released early Tuesday through U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison’s office, Clark’s family thanked protesters for their “incredible support” but asked, in light of the shootings, that the demonstration outside the precinct offices end and protesters move “onto the next step”.
At one point, a group went into Macy’s at Herald Square, and at another point, a group tried blocking the Lincoln Tunnel, police said.
“The young man was just lying there; he was not resisting arrest”, said Teto Wilson, according to the local NAACP chapter. Some who say they saw the shooting insist Clark was handcuffed, but police dispute that.
Later, Black Lives Matter discovered a video that the two men filmed en route to the Fourth Precinct from Uptown.
A picture of a smiling Jamar Clark adorned the program for his funeral at Shiloh Temple global Ministries. Since then, dozens to hundreds of people have been at the precinct continuously in protest of the shooting. Vehicles honked their horns, and protesters shouted “Justice for Jamar” in return. They say they will not leave until they see justice, and they are demanding that authorities release video of the shooting. That man’s name has not been publicly released, but according to the Star Tribune, his Facebook profile shows a man who “bears striking resemblance” to “SaigaMarine”, a pseudonymous 4chan user who recorded himself driving to the scene of the protests armed with a handgun on Thursday night.
After the shots, everything was “very chaotic”, [a protester, Nimo Omar] said. Van Dyke has been charged with first degree murder for the October 20, 2014 shooting in which McDonald was hit with 16 bullets.
At Slate, Leon Neyfakh writes, “So far the agency leading the state investigation of Clark’s death has refused to release the footage”. A state criminal investigation and a federal civil rights probe are underway.
As they drove away, protesters began chanting “black lives matter”.
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Some of the dead have become national symbols, anecdotes in a bitter struggle between police reform activists and law enforcement groups: each new black man or woman killed by an officer proof that American policing needs drastic reform; every officer killed in the line of duty new evidence that the protests amount to a war on police.
