Man killed in police shooting tried to escape troubled past

NAACP national president Cornell William Brooks said Clark’s death “is one bad chapter in a bad national narrative of police conduct”.

At a Thursday news conference, Minneapolis police Chief Janee Harteau holds a chunk of pavement that she said was thrown at officers outside the 4th Precinct station Wednesday night on the city s North Side.

Protesters, who have demanded release of video footage of the incident, say Clark was unarmed and handcuffed when he was shot.

Protesters marching down Plymouth Avenue North outside the Minneapolis Police Department’s fourth precinct on Sunday. Civil rights leaders appealed Thursday, November 19, 2015, for Minneapolis…

Hundreds are gathered outside a Minneapolis police precinct to remember a black man who was fatally shot by an officer.

Police arrested two men on Thursday night for spray-painting profanities on an outside wall of the 4th District police station, which is two blocks from where Clark was shot and has been the focal point of protests all week. A few community members allege Clark was handcuffed, which police dispute.

NAACP leaders declined to comment as they left the mansion.

An expected influx of protesters at a Minneapolis City Council meeting did not materialize at mid-morning today.

Mark Dayton met with Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges, national and local leaders of the NAACP, the commissioner of the Department of Public Safety, and other officials to discuss the shooting and the protests that have followed.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The troubled past that Jamar Clark struggled for years to escape now hangs over the investigation into his death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.

The protesters interrupted a regular city council meeting to complain about the way the city handles police misconduct issues.

Michelle Gross of Communities United Against Police Brutality was one of the activists removed from Friday’s meeting. As she was escorted out, she shouted, “We will be heard”.

Police say they were responding to an assault call in which Clark was a suspect and arrived to find Clark interfering with paramedics trying to treat the injured woman.

Protesters outside the Fourth Precinct holding up a banner stating “Release the tapes”.