Protesters are disgusted that Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman declined to charge the men with attempted murder and hate crimes.
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The complaint says all four men admitted in jail phone conversations that they were present at the shooting incident. Nathan Wayne Gustavsson, Joseph Martin Backman and Daniel Thomas Macey have also been charged with rioting.
Several people are still protesting at the police precinct and plan to hold a press conference on Monday afternoon. But some people who said they saw the shooting allege the 24-year-old was handcuffed. The other man were charged with second-degree riot. On Scarsella’s cell phone, they also found a cornucopia of pictures of him with guns and various racist imagery, including Confederate flags. The man, the witness said, was “punched in the face by the crowd” and as they were being escorted out, they opened fire.
Questions have been raised about whether Clark was handcuffed when he was shot, which police have denied.
The above item has been corrected to show that Allen Lawrence Scarsella is 23, not 22.
The day after the shooting, investigators learned that a police officer from outside the Twin Cities had a personal relationship with Scarsella and that Scarsella had told him about the shooting. He says he’s staying.
Clark, 24, died in a confrontation with police who were responding to an assault call in which Clark was a suspect. During a snowy Monday morning, about seven campfires were burning to warm those who were milling about.
Thomson ReutersMembers of the group Black Lives Matter march to city hall during a protest in Minneapolis, MinnesotaMINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Prosecutors must decide by noon on Monday whether to charge four men held by Minneapolis police in connection with the November 23 wounding of five people protesting the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man.
Eight shots were fired that night, and five men suffered non-life threatening injuries. These include a #ReleaseTheTapes rally has been called for Dec. 1 at 4:00 p.m. outside the Hennepin County Government Center, and a Northside Community Meeting that will take place on Saturday, Dec. 5, at Franklin Middle School. Additional details weren’t immediately available. A lawsuit that was transferred to federal court last week shows that one of the officers, Dustin Schwarze, was sued just 10 days before Clark’s shooting for allegedly using excessive force during an arrest four years ago.
Mayor Betsy Hodges, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison and the Urban League’s Steven Belton have asked protesters to end their siege. It also states the barricades on Plymouth Avenue impede access for emergency vehicles and snow plows.
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According to demonstrators, four masked men arrived at the scene and started filming them.
