The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating Mr Clark’s shooting, as is the FBI, which has said release of videos and other evidence would be detrimental to the investigation.
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During an interview on Tuesday, CNN host Brooke Baldwin asked Williams to react to breaking news that two men had been arrested in connection to shootings that injured at least five people who were protesting the killing of Jamar Clark.
“I was like, they’ve got a gun – don’t follow them”, the second witness said. They also called for a federal investigation, which is underway, and for placing the Minneapolis police under federal control.
Five people were shot and treated for non-life threatening injuries.
The shots were reportedly fired outside the Minneapolis 4th Precinct Police Department, where a protest camp is now being held for 24-year-old Clark after he was shot by police last week.
Clark’s brother, Eddie Sutton, released a statement after protesters were shot late Monday.
Clark was shot November 15 after a struggle with police.
Some protesters say they don’t intend to stop their demonstrations despite the request.
Henry Habu, who said he has been providing security for protesters, said he and others approached four white people who were standing under a “Justice4Jamar” sign to ask what they were doing there. Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder did not immediately respond to a question about the use of any chemical irritant.
A group of campaigners suffered shot wounds while demonstrating against the fatal shooting of an unarmed young black man earlier this month.
The police said in a statement that the suspects, who were not identified, were arrested in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington.
Carrie Brown and several other older members in the community said they tried to defuse the situation.
The shooting, which left five people who have accidents which were not-lifethreatening, used several racially disparaging remarks concerning the protests that had been published on social media in recent times.
Hennepin County Attorney, Mike Freeman, said that the decision to charge the officers connected to Clark’s death rests with the grand jury.
On Monday, a small group of protesters attempted to chase the suspects away from the 4th Precinct when the three masked white men opened fire and fled, according to The Associated Press. Two more men – both white, ages 26 and 21 – turned themselves in Tuesday afternoon.
Police brutality in the United States has raised nationwide debates amid a string of police killings of unarmed black men that led to the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Details surrounding Clark’s death have been murky, prompting demonstrators and the NAACP to call for the release of any video from the shooting of the 24-year-old African-American man.
Protesters demanding justice for a black man fatally shot by Minneapolis police were settling in for their ninth night of demonstrations when something just didn’t seem right.
Another witness, Jie Wronski-Riley, said the shooting happened at the same time protesters moved the men away from the encampment at the police station. She says protesters respect the family’s wishes but aren’t going anywhere “until we get justice for Jamar Clark”.
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According to police, Clark was a suspect in an assault and was interfering with paramedics who were trying to treat a victim.
