Some protesters criticized the police response time and said officers arrived in full riot gear.
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About a thousand of demonstrators, calling for 4th Precinct police station in north Minneapolis shut down, gathered in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park on Wednesday before marching to New York City’s Union Square. The protesters vowed to remain outside the station until a police officer is arrested over Clark’s death.
Minneapolis Police Department Public Information Officer John Elder told Sputnik on Tuesday the police were ready to use again chemical irritants as the most effective weapon against unruly protesters. “Jamar, your life did and does have goal”, said Bishop Richard D. Howell Jr., a bishop at the Shiloh Temple.
The 18-year-old says he is “a black man, and they are shooting men exactly like me”. “They have called for peace and a cessation of protests for Jamar’s sake and the safety of the community”, Belton said, according to Star Tribune.
At the visitation, leaflets shared details about Clark, who was the youngest of 10 children and liked to swim, fish, listen to music and take trips to Charlotte, N.C. People are continuing to get shot down by police in the streets.
None of the protesters suffered life-threatening injuries in the shooting.
Ahead of a planned protest in Portland, Ore., he tweeted: “Black Lives Matter is planning to protest at Lloyd Center on black Friday”.
The protesters are demanding that video of the shooting be released from the investigating agency, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. She says protesters respect the family’s wishes but aren’t going anywhere “until we get justice for Jamar Clark”.
However Scott Seroka, a police department spokesperson, said the arrested men had no connection to the police.
Meanwhile, four men – at least one with Northland ties – were in jail, accused of being involved in a Monday night shooting that injured five people protesting Clark’s death.
Protesters have demanded that authorities release video of Clark’s death. After community members on livestream started questioning them they left without incident, then we later found a video of them en route to the protest brandishing a pistol and making comments including “stay white” and justifying the killing of Jamar Clark.It has come to our attention that members of this group plan on returning tonight to our candlelight vigil at 4:30, some may come armed.
Steven Belton, interim president of the Minneapolis Urban League, agreed, saying protesters had achieved most of what they wanted. Some who say they saw the shooting insist Clark was handcuffed, but police dispute that.
Attempts to reach family members of the men were not successful. Most bowed their heads as they walked through the glass doors to attend two hours of visitation before the noon funeral began. “I believe in circumstances like that we show great restraint”. An officer opened fire on Clark after a struggle broke out between them, according to the Associated Press.
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A few pictures show Scarsella at the gun range, including one where he has a small cut on his nose with a caption, “You can never have enough eye relief with a.338”. They can only be understood as part of the long legacy of police and vigilante terror against black people standing up for their rights, from KKK lynchings to programs like COINTELPRO and state-sponsored assassinations to repress the Civil Rights movement.
