“It doesn’t show anything that would be any confirmation for one point of view or another”, Dayton told reporters about an ambulance video he said probably lasted less than a minute. An encampment of protesters outside a Minneapolis police station vowed Saturday to maintain their vigil ov…
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Both officers involved in the shooting, Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze, have been placed on standard administrative leave. Clark was unarmed and there are conflicting reports on whether he was handcuffed when he was shot. People who say they were at the scene have said the 24-year-old Clark was handcuffed when he was shot, but police have disputed that.
UPDATE: This video could cast a few doubt on the police claim that cops were, themselves, hit with pepperspray by “people who are not officers”.
US Justice Department attorneys opened an investigation Sunday into the killing of a black man that has prompted protests and calls for the two Minneapolis police officers involved in the shooting to be prosecuted.
Clark died on Monday night after being taken off life support at a local hospital.
State and federal officials haven’t released the footage because they say it doesn’t show the full incident, and could jeopardize their investigation. They have marched in the streets and blocked the police headquarters chanting, “arrest the officer or arrest us”. The feds are already investigating the death itself, but this new call for investigation is another layer of scrutiny on the city’s police, who have said the review will only vindicate the department.
Soon after the officers’ identities were publicized, the Police Department released the officers’ employment files.
A demonstration of people upset over the shooting death of a black man in a confrontation with Minneapolis police entered… According to tweets from the Minneapolis Police Department, police used the chemical irritant after officers trying to remove tarps were pelted by rocks and bottles.
A federal criminal civil rights investigation is also under way, to determine whether police intentionally violated Clark’s civil rights through excessive force. Grace Jones, of the AFSCME union, chants along with the crowd of union workers and protesters before speaking in front of a police precinct Saturday, November 21, 2015, in Minneapolis.
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“We need to know exactly what happened”, Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau said. WCCO was not invited, but Black Lives Matter Minneapolis said discussions focused on the next course of action, if protestors should stay at the precinct or find different ways to create the changes they want to see. She expressed faith in the state investigation but said the city needs “all the tools we have available to us”.
