Authorities said protesters threw bottles and rocks on Wednesday night, and each side said the other sprayed a chemical irritant into the crowd.
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Montana Filoteo, a gender, women and sexuality studies junior from the University, said she came to the precinct after Black Lives Matter called for backup to keep the group from being pushed out of the space by law enforcement. The fire was quickly re-lit.
The head of the national division of the NAACP is coming to Minneapolis, reports CBS Minnesota.
Another witness, Joseph Gipson, told KSTP that police “killed him [Clark] with his hands behind his back”. “Several officers were being intentionally aggressive, trying to provoke people into being more violent”. “At a few point during the struggle, an officer discharged his weapon, striking the suspect”, the Minneapolis Police Department said.
The governor also plans to ask for a federal investigation of “any matters which occurred in Minneapolis during the past week that may have violated the civil rights of any Minnesota citizens”.
Mark Ringennberg and Dustin Schwarze were involved in shooting Clark.
Authorities have said the footage – from an ambulance, mobile police camera, public housing cameras and people’s cellphones – doesn’t show the full incident and that releasing the recordings would taint a review by the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Protesters have been camped out there since last Sunday after Jamar Clark was shot by a police officer in what authorities say was a scuffle.
Clark was placed on life support and died a day later.
Hodges said they talked about the gravity about what happened in Minneapolis and what is happening in the city.
Black Lives Matter activists have been pressuring the police and investigators to release video of Clark’s shooting on November 15, which sparked ongoing protests.
As Wilson spoke, about 50 fellow demonstrators tried to stay warm in the 20-degree Fahrenheit (-6 C) cold by drinking coffee and huddling around campfires in the middle of the street in front of the station, where protesters pitched about a dozen tents. The man’s federal civil rights lawsuit was settled. She said she has no tapes to release. “The point is, he was unarmed, on the ground, now he’s dead”, she said.
Mr Kroll also said that Clark had “a violent history” and that the two officers who were involved in the shooting have no disciplinary issues on their records.
A few community members allege that Clarke was handcuffed when he was shot, which police dispute.
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“We’re still examining whether or not they were on Mr. Clark or whether or not they were just [fallen] at the scene”.
