Prosecutors are considering charges but won’t announce a decision before Monday, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said.
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Black Lives Matter protesters have been camping outside the 4th Precinct since Minneapolis police fatally shot 24-year-old Jamar Clark on November 15.
Following a brief SWAT standoff on Tuesday morning, police arrested 23-year-old Allen “Lance” Scarsella for the protest shooting, and two other suspects later turned themselves in: 21-year-old Nathan Gustavsson and 26-year-old Daniel Macey.
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. A fourth man was arrested but released after police decided he had not been at the scene of the shootings.
In the ongoing standoff at the Fourth Precinct police station over Jamar Clark’s killing, various radicals have emerged to complicate and agitate police against protesters, protesters against police. About a dozen protesters attempted to herd the group away from the area, said Noor, and the gunman “opened fire on about six protesters”, hitting five of them about a block away from the precinct station.
Demonstrators called on police to release video footage of the shooting.
Speakers thanked the protesters at the 4th Precinct for bringing about change and leading to the release of the names of the officers involved in Clark’s death. “Your death was not in vain!”
Late Monday, as a crowd gathered around the shooting scene, police used a chemical irritant to push them back, Habu said. They also received a commitment that the tapes of Mr. Clark’s shooting will be shared with the family and made public as soon as it will not impede the investigation.
Some community members who say they saw the incident allege Clark was handcuffed when he was shot, which police have disputed.
Grimm said protesters had been threatened by one group online and had been working with hackers to figure out the group’s plans. That’s when “white supremacists” showed up to the rally “in an act of domestic terrorism”, said the local Black Lives Matter group a Facebook post, according to Newsweek. A department spokesman said he doesn’t know if the shots were connected to the protesters. The five victims were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, and no suspects have been arrested. “Cause apparently fighting police and fighting paramedics is good enough to let you off with a slap on the wrist, especially when you go for an officer’s weapon”.
Nearly 1,000 demonstrators marched on city hall on Tuesday to protest the shooting and to demand justice.
“I’ve been to too many funerals and I’m exhausted of it”, said mourner Sheryllynn Wagner to reporters outside the church.
Family members of 24-year-old Jamar Clark also asked for no protests on Wednesday as he is laid to rest.
“Minneapolis police have said that Mr. Clark was a suspect in the assault”.
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Their supporters claim the men acted in self-defense after witnesses said they were punched during an altercation with protesters, who asked them to take off their masks or leave, but many people have described the men as “terrorists”. Says Soucheray, “As a lawyer, [Nekima Levy-Pounds, head of the Minneapolis NAACP] seems too casually willing to set aside the protocols of a criminal investigation, which call for nothing to be released so that the investigation not be tainted”.
