BCA to investigate officer-involved shooting in Mpls

Officers answered a call regarding an assault and were then alerted that the suspect “had returned to the area and was confronting paramedics and disrupting their ability to render aid”, a statement from police read.

Witnesses say Jamar Clark was hancuffed and on the ground when he was shot.

At a few point, an officer fired at least once, hitting the man, police said.

A Minnesota agency is investigating the shooting and wounding of a black man suspected of an assault by a Minneapolis police officer that has prompted the mayor to schedule a session Sunday evening to hear community concerns about the incident. A physical altercation took place with the man, who was not in handcuffs.

Clark’s relatives, including several sisters, gathered in a room on the seventh floor intensive-care unit at Hennepin County Medical Center Sunday afternoon where a physician told them that Clark is brain dead, according to one family member.

The NAACP statement quoted witness Teto Wilson, who said Clark “was just laying there”.

Minneapolis police fired shots to take control of two threatening situations Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Other accounts from witnesses say the suspect was in handcuffs when police shot him. A few witnesses said police used a chemical irritant on the crowd.

“That man was shot in cold blood while he had his hands behind his back. Two officers were surrounding the victim on the ground, an officer maneuvered his body around to shield Jamar’s body, and I heard the shot go off”.

According to police scanner audio of the incident, posted on the MN Police Clips Facebook page, the apparent domestic confrontation started in an apartment.

“What a sad day this is, what a sad moment in time this is, when an officer can shoot a man who is handcuffed at point-blank range”, Raeisha Williams, spokeswoman with Minneapolis NAACP, said. We don’t know the timeline of that investigation, but it will be as expeditious as possible.

“We need to know exactly what happened”.

The shooting outraged a few community members and prompted a protest by the group Black Lives Matter Minneapolis, after a few witnesses said the man was handcuffed when he was shot. “There’s a lot of misinformation out there”, said Chief Janee Harteau.