Shots fired at Minneapolis police protest second night in a row

“The safety of everyone at the Fourth Precinct must be our highest priority”, Ellison said.

Protesters have called on city leaders to release video footage captured of the incident, but authorities say it would harm their investigation into the incident.

Clark was shot by police at 12:45 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 15 outside of an apartment on the 1600 block of Plymouth Avenue N. Officers were responding to a request for assistance from paramedics who reported that Jamar Clark was disrupting their ability to aid an assault victim. Some who say they saw the shooting alleged he was handcuffed at the time, which police dispute. Protesters have said grand juries are unlikely to indict police officers.

Minneapolis police said they arrested a 23-year-old suspect on Tuesday.

A 32-year-old Hispanic man was released from custody because he proved he was not at the scene of the shooting. No further details were immediately available. One video showed a white man brandishing a gun while claiming to be on his way to the protests.

“We ain’t scared”, Minneapolis NAACP President Nekima Levy-Pounds told a large crowd gathered for a concert at the precinct Tuesday evening. We are united in addressing the racial inequities that hold back our city. “We ain’t turning around, but we’re here fighting for justice”. The governor had previously said that a demonstration in which hundreds of angered protesters marched onto Interstate-94, blocking traffic, made him “very uncomfortable”. On one night, Grimm said, online chatter included a post stating that a pie had been left at the protest site with rat poison. “Basically you’re asking us to put faith, trust and patience in a system that we know in the past has been created to carry out laws that basically says that black and brown folks are dispensable”, she said.

Speakers thanked the protesters at the 4th Precinct for bringing about change and leading to the release of the names of the officers involved in Clark’s death. The men will be held until Monday as prosecutors determine whether to file charges against them. “The family of Jamar Clark has been traumatized by the violent manner of his loss, the absence of information or explanation for the shooting and the challenge of navigating their grief amid the glare of media attention and among competing political agendas…”

“That’s part of the problem with these protests: the longer they go on, the more participation there is from across the country”, Johnson said. He and others said at least three members of the group were wearing masks that covered the lower half of their faces. An officer who answered the phone at the 4th Precinct confirmed that shots were fired and said that there were no injuries or arrests. Protesters lined the streets, fists raised in salute, as the cars stopped for several minutes, horns honking.

“It was so busy and chaotic”, Wronski-Riley said. According to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension – the state agency investigating the shooting – they have both been with the Minneapolis police for a little more than a year, and both have been officers for seven years.

Protesters are annoyed at Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton’s assertion on Monday that the video is inconclusive about what happened one way or the other; witnesses said Clark was handcuffed and unarmed, while the head of the police union said Clark took control of an officer’s weapon.

Eighteen-year-old Wesley Martin, shot in the leg, was walking on a cane and back outside the precinct.