Arrests During Night of Protests in Minneapolis

Gross and others were speaking out about the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark. Clark, who is African American and was unarmed, was shot by police and brought to a local hospital where, a day later, he was taken off life support and pronounced dead.

Clark was fatally wounded in what police say was a scuffle with officers responding to an assault.

As hostilities, rhetoric and demonstrations at the fourth police precinct have escalated, the eyes of the nation have increasingly been on Minneapolis and its long-simmering racial wounds.

Thursday’s protests, which included singing, dancing and performances by local artists, were markedly more peaceful than the night before.

A sign on the sidewalk near the protests outside the Fourth Precinct in north Minneapolis. He said he grabbed pre-prepared bottles of milk, to be used to soothe eyes that have been sprayed, and ran to help.

Don Samuels, a black former City Council member who represented the north side, said there’s a sense of wariness anytime a black man gets killed or shot by police, and people wonder if a white man in the same situation would have been shot. The city didn’t immediately release disciplinary records.

Mayor Betsy Hodges, center, asking for a civil rights investigation into the shooting of Jamar Clark during a Monday press conference. Authorities have yet to release cell phone and witness videos reportedly showing clips of the altercation, but demonstrators are demanding that the footage be made public.

Protesters demand that video of the shooting be released. My son is PEACEFULLY protesting w/ hands up; officer is shouldering gun.

As Thursday evening wore on, temperatures dipped below freezing and wind speeds reached 15 miles per hour.

A few protesters shut down Interstate 94 Monday night. A lot of their feelings had to do with more than the last five days. “We don’t want another Ferguson”, Minneapolis pastor and former city member Brian Herron told Reuters, referring to the major clashes between protesters and police that followed an outbreak of community outrage over the decision to not indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson over the killing of Michael Brown. “I think everyone here is still deeply angry”.

He said police may have confused his brother with someone else who was involved in a domestic violence situation in the area on Sunday.

“Some of my teachers have told us not to talk about it”, she said.