Charges possible against men in Minneapolis protest shooting

Police said he was reaching for an officer’s gun when he was shot. Within seconds, Van Dyke begins firing.

Shoppers seemed to take the disturbance in stride, with some even snapping photos of the crowd. Protesters closed a stretch of Michigan Avenue and blocked would-be customers from entering high-end stores on Chicago’s famous Magnificent Mile, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Marilyn Covarrubias came to the protest mourning the death of her 37-year-old son, Daniel, who was killed by police in Lakewood this spring. “I know there’s a lot of speculation as to who these people were”, said US Representative Keith Ellison, an African-American whose district includes most of Minneapolis.

All previous marches have been largely peaceful.

According to the documents, the suspect, who is white, told the officer that he and some friends went to the protest to livestream it when the altercation broke out, leading to the shooting.

Prosecutors are filing charges against four men who were arrested last week after shots were fired at demonstrators protesting the killing of a black man by police. A federal civil rights investigation is also underway.

Dozens of protesters with Black Lives Matter Cincinnati rallied Friday night outside Cincinnati Police Department headquarters, showing solidarity for their counterparts in Chicago and Minneapolis where two black men have died at the hands of police.

Demonstrators camped outside a Minneapolis police station since Clark’s shooting have said the shooting of the protesters a block away left them undeterred.

Mica Grimm, right, of Minneapolis, speaks to a gathering crowd of the group Black Lives Matter before they march to City Hall during a protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Nov. 24, 2015. “I think [activists] might be in part saying, ‘Look, we have to keep sort of relations with the police”.

Young said she supports the Black Lives Matters protesters’ cause.

The shooting took place near a police precinct where demonstrations were taking place.

Several people spoke to the crowd in the park and said the deaths illustrate sustained racism and mistreatment of black people in Portland and nationwide.