Two men arrested for shooting near Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis

People warm themselves as they demonstrate since the November 10 shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark, in front of the Minneapolis Police 4th Precinct on Tuesday, November 24, 2015. None suffered life-threatening wounds.

The younger suspect was arrested around 11:20 a.m. CST in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington, while the older man was arrested in his vehicle about 45 minutes later in south Minneapolis, police said. Minneapolis Police said he was a 32-year-old Hispanic male.

The incident came nine days after Jamar Clark’s shooting.

Mr Clark’s shooting comes at a time of heightened debate in the United States over police use of lethal force, especially against black people.

A police union representative has said Clark grabbed one officer’s gun, although the weapon remained in its holster.

Police had initially said McDonald was high on PCP, acting erratically and lunged at the officers with a knife. That being said, demonstrators are still reunited outside the precinct.

The protesters had a safety plan, and security team members had been asking people who looked like troublemakers to leave.

The Minneapolis Police Department is trying to determine whether to charge the accused with hate crimes for the shooting, which wounded five black men between the ages of 19 and 43 near the police department’s Fourth Precinct station.

Shot from an approaching cruiser, it shows McDonald run down the middle of the street towards a cruiser, hitch up his trousers and then start to walk away from Van Dyke and his partner. A protester allegedly punched one of them. On one night, Grimm said, online chatter included a post stating that a pie had been left at the protest site with rat poison.

“We have not had any immediate concerns or threats to our school communities”, he said.

Last Year’s Black Friday Protests: Seattle police used pepper spray and blast balls that emitted tear gas. “And together we will be one Minneapolis”.

The witness added that two of the three men had been taunting protesters before firing on them. He and others said at least three members of the group were wearing masks that covered the lower half of their faces.

The names of the three men have not been released.

In a series of speeches that followed, protesters made direct counterpoints to what they believe is a straw man argument that suggests the slogan “Black Lives Matter” means that only black lives matter, when in fact it means the opposite. The scene of the shooting is about a block north of the Fourth Precinct. “Many now feel that that issue [of racially biased police violence] must intrude into ‘business as usual, ‘” the group said, “to ensure that a critical mass of Americans understands that change in policing practices is urgently needed”.

“I think we have shown time and time again if they protest peacefully they can go wherever you want”. Another, who had been shot in the arm, was yelling that his limb was numb and he needed help.

Like Wronski-Riley, who said the shooting was a “concrete representation of why we’re out here”, King Demetrus Pendleton has been coming to the protest every day. The city’s Community Police Commission requested such a review back in May, citing the need to “diminish tension between the police and demonstrators and their supporters”.