Community members and activists on Monday at a news conference demanded that police release the name of the officer involved as well as any video of the incident.
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Traffic is blocked. The state Transportation Department reports protesters are on foot on the main line of the freeway.
Protesters are still at the city’s fourth police precinct, where they’ve been since Sunday afternoon.
Protestors also want all video of the shooting and the names of the officers involved released.
The incident led to protests Sunday and an overnight encampment at the north Minneapolis police precinct near the site of the shooting.
Earlier in the day, people lingered on the street where the shooting had occurred, taping posters and balloons to a lamppost.
Ramona Dohman, the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, said the policemen’ identities would be published after they are interviewed by investigators. It isn’t clear what footage exists. Police say he was a suspect in a domestic assault and interfered with paramedics at the scene. When paramedics were treating the girlfriend, Sharp said, Clark tried to talk to her – then he was handcuffed and shot. Police did not immediately provide more information about the incident and a representative from the criminal apprehension bureau did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“At a few point during the struggle, an officer discharged his weapon, striking the suspect”, the statement read.
Tequila Dillon witnessed the immediate aftermath and offered this description: “When they put him on the gurney, that’s when they took one of the handcuffs off. They threw him in the ambulance and they were gone”.
Harteau says two city police cars have been vandalized.
Schweigart said the 51 people who were arrested were cooperative and no use of force was required in detaining them.
The mayor of Minneapolis announced that she had requested a federal civil rights investigation into the police shooting of a black man, who witnesses said was shot while in custody.
“We need all the tools we have available”, Hodges said at a press conference on Monday evening.
KG Wilson, a peace activist who just retired weeks ago after 11 years of building relationships between the community and the police department, said he’s hurt by the reaction he is seeing and disagrees with the protests. They said they’ll take shifts at the entry until the two officers involved are fired or indicted. “We’re going to stay here until we find out what happened”, said community activist John Martin on Monday, according to Reuters. Officers in his department have recently started wearing body cameras.
Clark’s father James Hill said doctors at HCMC have told him that his son is brain dead.
Mr Clark, 24, who worked at a auto wash in North Minneapolis, was one of 18 siblings.
Bettie Smith, whose 24-year-old son, Quincy, died in 2008 during a police arrest in Minneapolis, expressed her frustration with the actions of the officers in Clark’s shooting and with the explanations so far from police about the circumstances surrounding the confrontation. The August 2014 police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked demonstrations nationwide.
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Mr Clark was shot after police were called to a north Minneapolis home at about 12.45am on Sunday for a report of an assault.
