White Men Arrested in Minneapolis Black Lives Matter Protest Shooting

A night after a shooting near a Minneapolis protest that left five people injured, hundreds of demonstrators at the same site quietly milled around, sharing coffee, pizza and doughnuts, and stacking up firewood.

Two arrests have been made related to the incident: One, a 23-year-old white man from Bloomington, and the other a 32-year-old Hispanic man in South Minneapolis.

Law enforcement officials say Minneapolis police have a fourth person in custody in the shootings of five Black Lives Matter protesters but that a decision on whether to file charges won’t come before Monday. Two other white men, ages 26 and 21, turned themselves in, the department said.

Protesters approached a group of men before the shooting and tried to escort them away from the precinct.

Monday night, Black Lives Matter protesters who have been camped out at the 4th precinct police station, confronted a handful of masked white men wielding a video camera. The protests have continued amid questions over whether Clark was handcuffed when he was shot, which police have denied, and demands from protesters that authorities release videos of the incident.

The funeral is at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in North Minneapolis.

Clark’s brother, Eddie Sutton, said in a statement that in light of the shootings, his family believed the demonstrations at the police station should end “out of imminent concern for the safety of the occupiers”. According to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension – the state agency investigating the shooting – they have both been with the Minneapolis police for a little more than a year, and both have been officers for seven years.

Police tweeted early Tuesday that officers are searching for three white male suspects in the shooting that occurred shortly before 11 p.m. about a block from the 4th Precinct.

None of the wounds in the Monday shooting were life-threatening, and the wounded were taken to hospitals.

Demonstrators planned to announce their next step later Tuesday following a meeting with community members about strategy.

Two people were taken by ambulance to Hennepin County Medical Center, and three others were driven by private vehicle to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale.

Protesters were calling for the release of video showing the shooting. Protests have been ongoing since Sunday Nov. 15 after news of Clark’s death began to spread.

Police at the scene of the shooting.

Tuesday’s march came despite Clark’s family saying that the Monday night shootings mean it is time to end the protest. Twitter feeds, using the hashtags #Justice4Jamar and #FourthPrecinctShutdown that they’d been using all week, lit up the Internet with theories of the shooters’ identities and police involvement.

Grimm had been dealing with hackers to figure out the group’s plans and said protesters have been confronted by one group online. FBI spokesman Kyle A. Loven released a statement declaring that the FBI was monitoring the situation and would decide “as to whether or not any further federal action is necessary”. All had injuries that were not life-threatening.

“Dozens of officers responded nearly immediately attending to victims and secured the scene”, the department said in its statement.