So far, six felony counts against Scarsella have been posted as of late Monday morning on the court’s website: one count of second-degree riot while armed and five counts of second-degree assault with a unsafe weapon. After several men fired into a crowd of protestors the night of November 23, Ellison said there is no denying the conditions have become unsafe.
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Twenty-seven-year-old Joseph Martin Backman of Eagan, 21-year-old Nathan Wayne Gustavsson of Hermantown, and 26-year-old Daniel Thomas Macey of Pine City each face a riot charge.
Protesters have maintained a presence outside the 4th Precinct since Clark, 24, was shot November 15 by police and died a day later.
Dashcam video released by court order earlier this week shows Laquan McDonald, 17, being shot 16 times by a white police officer in Chicago.
Authorities in Minnesota say Clark was the suspect in an assault and that he interfered when paramedics tried to treat the assault victim.
The criminal complaint said Scarsella told a friend who is a police officer in another jurisdiction that he had gotten into an altercation and shot protesters.
“My son deserves the same chance in this country as everyone else, and I’m here to make sure that happens”, Mitchell said.
The impassioned and largely peaceful Seattle Black Lives Matter protest stretched into the evening, with demonstrators marching through the downtown shopping district. They found a man dead with a gunshot wound inside, and arrested another man inside the house.
“These activists in Chicago have been active, savvy people, unlike in Ferguson, where there’s not as long a history of protest activity around police matters”, says Michael Kazin, an expert on social movements at Georgetown University in Washington. Their injuries were not life-threatening. A social media video ends with the words “stay white”, the document says. The two men knew each other, Elder said. The incident is being investigated, and one of the officers involved was recently named in a lawsuit for allegedly using excessive force during an arrest four years ago.
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Police arrested another man in the house and recovered guns. The state BCA is determining whether the two officers – Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze – violated state laws. The suit alleges Schwarze told Hanson and another passenger in the vehicle “that if they exited the vehicle, he would “beat the s– out of” them”. “16 shots!” and stopped traffic for blocks to express their anger over the October 20, 2014, shooting and the subsequent investigation, which they say was mishandled.
