Minneapolis Mayor Calls for Federal Investigation Into Police Shooting as

The chief said she has asked the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to conduct an independent investigation. Already brain dead when he arrived at the hospital, Clark was removed from life support late last night, according to a Black Lives Matter spokesperson.

The involvement of the BCA is a sign that community pressure is working, Levy-Pounds said, adding: “But we don’t trust Minnesota law enforcement agencies to hold each other accountable, because that rarely happens in this state”.

At least eight tents were seen at the campsite on Monday, and a few protesters were sitting inside the glass doors of the station – including one who was knitting.

Activists gathered for the second night in a row to protest the police shooting of an unarmed Black man and demand the release of footage of the incident.

On Monday evening, demonstrators blocked Interstate 94, stopping northbound traffic, AP reports.

Protestors are demanding that Minneapolis police turn over any video of the incident and publicly name the officers involved. On Monday, Harteau said police were not wearing body cameras. Let the investigation be completed. The call became a call for help after police say the man assaulted paramedics at the scene. They attempted to calm him, which resulted in a struggle and a shot being fired.

Police said their initial information showed Clark, a suspect in an assault, was not handcuffed. His father, James Hill, told The Associated Press that his son had suffered a single gunshot wound over his left eye.

Hodges, in a letter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, hoped a federal review would increase “transparency and community confidence in the outcome of this investigation”.

Harteau said after the meeting that “misinformation” is being spread about the case, but she would not elaborate.

Gov. Mark Dayton also issued a statement saying he supported the request for a federal probe. Harteau did not say whether the officers’ squad auto had a camera that might have recorded the incident. One person was arrested in connection with damage to an unmarked police vehicle.

“The majority of African-Americans in this city live at or below the poverty line, are facing double-digit unemployment, and are concentrated in the poorest areas of the city where over-policing occurs”, she said, “and that’s part of what leads to a lot of the racial the tensions that we see happening between black residents and the police department”.

Outrage and a civil lawsuit followed the 2013 death of 22-year-old Terrance Franklin, a burglary suspect whom police pursued and shot in a Minneapolis basement.

As you are aware, there was an officer-involved shooting this this past weekend in Minneapolis.

In 2014, prominent civil rights activist Al Flowers complained of being the victim of brutality when police served a warrant on a relative at his home.