Fourth suspect arrested in Black Lives Matter shootings

Wronski-Riley said that at this point the men “turned around and without warning and started shooting at us… everything was super chaotic”. Authorities raided the man’s Bloomington home and seized a dozen weapons. After the shooting, the white men fled in an SUV.

The Associated Press is not naming the man because he has not formally been charged. The fatal shooting of Clark, a black man, by a Minneapolis poli… About 35 activists gathered in a circle around a fire to talk about what keeps them going.

Grimm said organizers have a large Thanksgiving meal planned for Thursday.

At the memorial, one of Clark’s sisters fought tears as she urged mourners not take their loved ones for granted.

“Monday night’s shooting at the peaceful protest in front of the Fourth Precinct was appalling”. A fourth man was arrested but released after police decided he had not been at the scene of the shootings. On Tuesday, Chicago Police released dashcam video of the shooting on Chicago’s Southwest Side, in which McDonald was struck 16 times.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office says prosecutors were granted an extension to consider charges in the case, but that no decision would be made before Monday. All five were treated for non-life threatening injuries.

This story has been corrected to correct racial descriptions of the men in custody. When demonstrators tried to push them away, a scuffle and then the gunshots occurred.

After the funeral service, a procession brought Clark’s body to the protesters, where improvised barricades of firewood were moved aside to let them through.

“If the whole reason that the tape is not being released to the public is because it would impede the investigation or cause people to draw conclusions one way or the other, the governor’s statement could be perceived in a similar way, as potentially shaping public opinion surrounding this issue”, said Levy-Pounds, who’s called for the release of all tapes held by authorities.

His funeral earlier Wednesday attracted hundreds of people. They said Clark was a suspect in the assault and had an altercation with the officers before one of them shot him. “Jamar, your life did and does have objective”, said Bishop Richard D. Howell Jr., a bishop at the Shiloh Temple.

“We understand the frustration of community members who may take actions not sanctioned by our group; this is a time of grief and rage and we remain committed to nonviolent direct action”, BLM said in a statement.

Meanwhile, activists vowed to continue to protest Clark’s death in spite of Monday’s shooting.

Witnesses said the gunmen who fired at the protesters were hanging around the rally before others asked them to leave.

Protesters have won a couple of their original demands: for there to be an independent federal investigation into the shooting and for names of the two officers involved in the incident to be released. Minneapolis police were searching Tuesday f… She says Minneapolis protesters will stay “even if it takes 400 days”.

In the wake of the shootings, Clark’s family asked for protesters to end the encampment out of safety concerns, and U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison said it would be wise to “start thinking about an exit strategy” and what to do next. He was on crutches after being one of five people shot and injured at the protest Monday night.

Steven Belton, interim president of the Minneapolis Urban League, echoed those sentiments, saying protesters had achieved most of what they wanted.

Clark was shot November 15.

Attempts to reach family members of the men were not successful. Most bowed their heads as they walked through the glass doors to attend two hours of visitation before the noon funeral began.

Their dead relatives become hashtags, characters whose lives are publicly dissected both by those seeking to lionize the dead and those seeking to demonize them.

Freeman said the investigation into Monday’s shooting is ongoing.

Earlier in the day, death threats against the protesters had circulated online in a white supremacist section of the website Reddit.