The protestors said they plan to stay vocal and vigilant until videos of the shooting are released.
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“We have received numerous complaints from residents in our community who have not been able to have access to their precinct to report a crime or meet with investigators when they have already been the victim of a crime”, Harteau said in the online video. After a couple of protesters threw rocks, others urged them to remain nonviolent.
BLM activists have been camping out at the fourth precinct since Sunday afternoon, demanding the release of footage that captured the shooting death of Jamar Clark by a Minneapolis police officer. He died after his life support machine was turned off at a local hospital Monday evening.
Evans said officials will wait for the autopsy report before revealing how many times Clark was shot.
While neither Ringgenberg nor Schwarze have had any disciplinary action taken against them since joining the department, the Star Tribune revealed that both of them have faced federal lawsuits in their careers. Police and riot cops kept a barricade, and a few pointed guns at protesters.
24-year-old Jamar Clark was shot in the head by Minneapolis police Sunday.
“They were macing through the entirety of the night”, says BLM spokeswoman Lena Gardner.
Tensions had been high since earlier Wednesday, when police moved to clear protesters out of the vestibule of the station. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled Tuesday that Clark died of a gunshot wound to the head. Police said after a scuffle, Clark was shot. They removed a shelter canopy that protesters had set up and dumped water on a campfire, but left the roughly 18 tents untouched before forming a wall in front of the precinct’s entrance. Police at one point used a chemical irritant to control the crowd, and a chemical spray was also directed at officers, police spokesman John Elder said.
Shwarze was an officer in Richfield for nearly six years.
Burns said she holds “no ill will” against the police, but she “prays for their souls”.
Lt. Bob Kroll is president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis.
Officers also said marijuana was being smoked in the vestibule. He declined to release any identifying information about the officers, including their race, pending interviews with them.
Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) Superintendent Drew Evans briefs the media Tuesday, November 17, 2015 in St. Paul, Minn., with an investigative update in the shooting of Jamar Clark by a Minneapolis police officer.
Don Samuels, a black former City Council member who represented the north side, said there’s a sense of wariness anytime a black man gets killed or shot by police, and people wonder if a white man in the same situation would have been shot. The group also asked for an independent investigation into the shooting, saying the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension wasn’t capable of being impartial.
Protesters are calling for the release of any video showing the shooting and what led up to it.
The investigation has been given top priority, and is expected to take two to four months.
The investigations by the BCA and the FBI are ongoing and should be concluded as soon as practicable but must be conducted in a transparent manner, as this case raises wider issues for the Minneapolis community, and merits public scrutiny including of any video of the incident.
“I’m here for my community, not for a story”, she said.
“The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota and prosecutors with the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division will independently review all evidence to determine if Mr. Clark’s death involved any prosecutable violations of federal criminal civil rights statutes”.
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The paramedics called for police help, and two Minneapolis officers arrived and tried to calm the suspect, the Police Department said in a statement after the shooting.
