NAACP plans Minneapolis vigil to underscore outrage at police

The protest followed the early Sunday shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark, a North Minneapolis resident who police said was interfering with ambulance personnel who were treating his girlfriend. “We believe people from outside our community are coming in to promote violence”.

Harteau said chemical irritants were sprayed at officers, resulting with one needing medical treatment.

Officers responded by spraying irritants at the throwers, Harteau said.

Like many cities across the US where there have been victims of police brutality, Minneapolis suffers from a severe lack of trust between the community and local police force.

Police said two men were arrested late Thursday on preliminary charges of felony damage to property after profanities were found spray-painted on a precinct building.

A day after tensions rose as police moved protesters away from the police station, but still on the grounds, things were calmer. Brooks told reporters Thursday that Clark’s death “is one bad chapter in a bad national narrative of police conduct”. Clark was unarmed at the time of his death.

Bob Kroll, president of the union representing Minneapolis police officers, said at a Thursday news conference that Clark had grabbed one of the officers’ guns during the melee, although the weapon remained in its holster. They say handcuffs were at the scene but it isn’t clear whether they were on Clark or had just fallen at the scene.

– Jamar Clark was shot by Minneapolis police at 12:45 a.m. on Sunday, November 15 outside of an apartment on the 1600 block of Plymouth Avenue N. Clark, 24, died Monday, November 16 after he was removed from life support.

Tuesday: The FBI starts a federal civil rights investigation, while the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension announces they have video but none of it shows the entire incident.

Meanwhile, the NACCP was organizing a candlelight vigil and march for Friday evening.

Police and a spokeswoman for the Hennepin County Medical Center said they could not comment on the man’s condition.

State Rep. Raymond Dehn, D-Minneapolis, was among those standing outside the 4th Precinct station.

“What I’ve seen from those demonstrating at the 4th Precinct has been nothing but peaceful”, Dehn said Thursday. “While there may be a few bad actors, we must remember that the police have guns and the protesters don’t”. “Minneapolis is better than what happened last night and must strive to do better”.

Mayor Hodges request for a federal investigation is under review by the Justice Department.