Ellison says justice will come but will take time after protest shooting

The shooting occurred on Monday after a group of protesters tried to confront three white masked men who showed up at the scene of the demonstration.

No charges have been filed in that shooting.

The Associated Press is not naming the man because he has not formally been charged.

Demonstrators were camped outside the police station following the death of Clark.

For the most part, members of the black community say they still don’t feel it. Even on a Tuesday night when everything seemed to go about as well as could have been hoped, the lingering feelings among black activists in Chicago was bitterness and frustration.

Grimm says organizers have a large Thanksgiving meal planned for Thursday. On one night, Grimm said, online chatter included a post stating that a pie had been left at the protest site with rat poison.

Meanwhile, The StarTribune said several federal agencies are looking into Clark’s death.

“The changes we seek will likely take years, not weeks or months”. Scarsella told police he accidentally pulled the trigger on his handgun while cleaning it. No one was injured and Scarsella was not arrested. A Hennepin County District Court Judge has granted the county attorney’s office until Monday at noon to making a charging decision on the suspects. All had injuries that were not life-threatening.

This story has been corrected to correct racial descriptions of the men in custody.

The officers involved were Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze. Vehicles honked their horns, and protesters shouted “Justice for Jamar” in return.

Minneapolis police identified the suspects as 23-year-old Allen Scarsella, 27-year-old Joseph Backman, 21-year-old Nathan Gustavsson and 26-year-old Daniel Macey. Police, however, dispute this claim.

More than 300 people entered a north Minneapolis church for Clark’s funeral on Wednesday. Howell said what’s needed now is a special state legislative session to address the needs of Minnesota’s minority groups. Four officers stood idle along a wall outside of the precinct during the shooting, Clark said.

Attempts by Reuters to reach family members of the men were not successful. “You ain’t out here”, Pastor Jayme Ali of God of All Truth Church said.

Ali spoke outside the church hosting Clark’s funeral. Protesters said a Monday night shooting and injuring of five of them convinced them to continue their action.

Protester Jie Wronski-Riley, who is also on the security team, said most of the crowd stopped following the men about midway up the street, but a few protesters gave chase.

“The Jamar Clark family has urged us to start thinking about an exit strategy, and I think that would be wise”.

A demonstrator describes how five protesters were shot earlier in front of a Minneapolis Police precinct headquarters early Tuesday morning in Minneapolis.

Belton said the vigil should end to “restore order” to the community, which he said has endured open gunfire, traffic and service interruptions, smoke from the protesters’ fires and hours of helicopter noise.

Clark was shot November 15 after a struggle with police.

Council President Barb Johnson said the shooting Monday evening was a “continuation of a stressful time for the neighbors that live in the area surrounding the 4th Precinct”, adding that “they deserve some peace and some rest”. Wronski-Riley said that at this point the men “turned around and without warning and started shooting at us… everything was super chaotic”. Most bowed their heads as they walked through the glass doors.

The lesson, experts say, is that police reform will not only take time, but heart. But some people who said they saw the shooting said the 24-year-old was handcuffed.