Both officers are on standard administrative leave. Clark died the next day. The protesters also modified the slogan “Hands up, don’t shoot!” that originated after the police killing of Black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, previous year to “Handcuffs, don’t shoot”.
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Franklin, who was black, was being chased by police in a suspected burglary when he broke into a home.
Martez McKnight, 22, told The Associated Press that Clark, his uncle, was put on life support after he was taken to a hospital.
Court records show that Ringgenberg and another San Diego officer were accused of excessive force in 2012.
Black Lives Matter and others assembled promptly after reports of the shooting and have since been camped outside the MPD’s 4th Precinct station. However, Minnesota BCA superintendent Drew Evans told reporters that none of the footage captures the entire shooting, and video won’t be released until the investigation is complete.
Pressed on the timeline for results of the bureau’s investigation, Evans said two to four months is typical but that the Clark case “has been given top priority”.
UPDATE: This video could cast some doubt on the police claim that cops were, themselves, hit with pepperspray by “people who are not officers”.
Mona Abdi, who originally hails from Nairobi, Kenya, says she worries about her two sons, aged eight and ten, who live in the same neighborhood where Clark was killed.
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.
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.
Mayor Betsy Hodges announced the city had asked the federal Department of Justice for a federal civil rights investigation, which will occur in concurrence with the state’s BCA investigation.
Authorities have said the officers involved weren’t wearing body cameras and that there was no police dashcam video of the shooting.
Quay, a young woman who would be among those arrested in a few hours, said she was at the protest because she worries about her two younger brothers, one of whom is frequently approached by the police for reasons of “mistaken identity”.
Protest organisers also ignored an invitation from Mayor Hodges to a formal community meeting she was conducting – at that meeting someone in the crowd loudly heckled her, while at the rally, organisers continued to maintain Mr Clark was shot while handcuffed, and doubted any official inquiry would be impartial. The officers arrived at the scene and got into an altercation with Clark, who was a suspect in the assault.
Minneapolis Police Department officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze were involved in the shooting of 24-year-old Clark shortly after midnight on Sunday, according to the city’s Department of Public Safety. However, some witness accounts say otherwise.
According to USA Today, neither officer had faced disciplinary action while working for the Minneapolis police department. When he refused to comply, the officers began to arrest him – but Clark then began to struggle with one of the officers. Evans said the videos will not be released. Some onlookers have alleged that Clark was handcuffed when he was shot, which police have disputed.
Minneapolis police maced and pointed guns at activists protesting the police shooting of Jamal Clark after the names of the officers were released.
Both officers have been interviewed by officials with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
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Clark’s relatives have said that despite several convictions for robbery and domestic assault, he had gotten his life back on track. Nelson said it’s unlikely people would face any legal repercussions for posting videos online that they took of the incident on their own.
