Protesters against Minneapolis police shooting thrown out of city council meeting

Black Lives Matter Minneapolis, meanwhile, has raised concerns about another video, featuring two men they said they turned away from the ongoing protest on Thursday evening. Civil rights leaders appealed Thursday, November 19, 2015, for Minneapolis…

Police made a perimeter around a protester who was having a medical emergency on the fifth day of protesting in front of the Minneapolis Fourth Precinct. The head of the Minneapolis police union said Thursday that Clark had his hands on an officer’s gun.

Witnesses to the shooting just after midnight Sunday said the man was handcuffed when he was shot, which led to protests and an overnight encampment outside a police precinct on the city’s north side.

About 30 students joined protesters at the precinct on Friday after marching from a nearby middle and high school, and more protests were planned for Friday evening.

Police spray a chemical irritant as demonstrators besiege the Minneapolis Police Department Fourth Precinct building in Minneapolis on Wednesday, November 18, 2015. Mayor Betsy Hodges visited the protests for the first time and, though she had called on the FBI to investigate Clark’s death, she was booed by a few protesters who had been requesting her presence since Sunday.

The footage – which the Minneapolis Police Department says is genuine, but was not released by the department – shows what appears to be Molotov cocktails being launched over precinct walls, while gunshots can be heard in the background.

“It shows a militarization of the police force in the city of Minneapolis”, Levy-Pounds said.

Earlier on Friday, WCCO reported three activists were removed from a Minneapolis City Council meeting after they confronted council members over Clark’s killing. “You will be held accountable for what you have done to our community”.

Gross and others were speaking out about the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark. Both officers have seven years policing experience, including the most recent thirteen months with Minneapolis.

The group’s demonstration, to protest what members said was a lack of police accountability, punctuated a tumultuous week in the city: five days that would include protests, demonstrations, dueling press conferences and confrontations between police and activists – much of it involving the group Black Lives Matter and all of it in response to the shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark by Minneapolis Police in the early morning hours of Sunday, November 15.

Brooks told reporters Thursday that Clark’s death “is one bad chapter in a bad national narrative of police conduct”.