Police STORM Their Own Station As Protesters Took Over In Protest For Shooting An Unarmed Black Man

Police STORM Their Own Station As Protesters Took Over In Protest For Shooting An Unarmed Black Man

Minneapolis police officers stormed an area in front of the Fourth Precinct station Wednesday to remove protesters who had been camping out for three days in protest of the police involved shooting death of an unarmed black man. Then things got…a little scary…

Witnesses claim Jamar Clark, 24, was shot ‘in the head execution style’ by police on Sunday during a confrontation while he was unarmed. He died after his life support machine was turned off at a local hospital Monday evening.
Members of the Minneapolis chapter of Black Lives Matter and other demonstrators demanded for police to release video of the shooting Wednesday, but the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has declined to do so.
Tensions increased in the afternoon when police moved to clear protesters out of the vestibule of the Fourth Precinct station where several had been sleeping since Sunday’s shooting.

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They pulled down a pop-up shelter and doused a bonfire, prompting protesters to chant, ‘Shame on you!’ before relighting the flame.
Chief Janee Harteau said police have to keep the vestibule clear for safety.
As the confrontation extended into the night, police used a chemical irritant to control the crowd of scores of protesters swelling outside the precinct office.
Chemical spray was also directed at officers from the crowd, police spokesman John Elder said.
The department tweeted that police used the irritant after officers trying to remove tarps had rocks and bottles thrown at them.
KSTP reported that some protesters poured milk on their faces after coming in contact with the chemical irritant that police used.
Police said they also fired one marking round to identify a man who was throwing bricks.

Earlier Wednesday the officers involved in Clark’s shooting were identified as Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze.
They both have seven years of experience, including 13 months with the Minneapolis department.
However, their race wasn’t released because it’s private under state law.
Police in Maple Grove, where Ringgenberg worked before joining the Minneapolis force, said he is white, according to the Associated Press.
According to USA Today, neither officer had faced disciplinary action while working for the Minneapolis police department.
However, Schwarze was named in two federal lawsuits in 2010 and 20111 while working as an officer with the Richfield, Minnesota Police Department, USA Today reported.
Both lawsuits were dismissed by a judge with prejudice.

Riggenberg also worked as a police officer in San Diego, California, where he was named in a lawsuit for an alleged mistaken arrest, a case that was also dismissed by a judge.
The FBI is also undertaking a civil rights investigation.
Police said Clark was a suspect in an assault and was interfering with paramedics trying to treat the victim.
Police said there was a scuffle, and Clark was shot.
Some people who say they saw the shooting claim Clark wasn’t struggling and was handcuffed.
Police initially said he wasn’t handcuffed, but the state agency that’s investigating the shooting, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said one thing it’s looking at is whether Clark was restrained.

The president of the Minneapolis police union, Lt. Bob Kroll, said Wednesday in an email that Clark was ‘disarming’ the officer and was not handcuffed.
Sunday’s shooting took place on the north side, where the population is predominantly black and generally poorer than the rest of the city.
The four neighborhoods nearest the shooting are 53 percent black, according to 2010 census data. The city as a whole is 60 percent white.
Chuck Samuelson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Minnesota, said tension has risen as police have stepped up their presence in high-crime areas.
An ACLU study earlier this year found black people are nearly nine times more likely to be arrested for low-level offenses in Minneapolis than white people.
‘African-American males feel like they are targeted by police because, frankly, they are,’ Samuelson said.

Nekima Levy-Pounds, resident of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP, said several high-profile cases have increased mistrust of police, including the 2013 death of Terrance Franklin and the 2006 death of Fong Lee, both shot by police.
Franklin, who was black, was being chased by police in a suspected burglary when he broke into a home.
Police said he struggled with officers, grabbing a police weapon and shooting and wounding two officers before he was shot 10 times.

A grand jury cleared officers in his death, but Levy-Pounds called it ‘a case of murder of a young African-American man at the hands of Minneapolis police.’
In the case of Lee, a 19-year-old son of Laotian immigrants, the officer who shot and killed him in north Minneapolis said he feared for his life. A jury ruled the officer didn’t use excessive force.
‘We call Minneapolis a tale of two cities: The best of times if you’re white, and worst of times if you’re black,’ Levy-Pounds told the Associated Press.

Don Samuels, a black former City Council member who represented the north side, said there’s a sense of wariness anytime a black man gets killed or shot by police, and people wonder if a white man in the same situation would have been shot.
But he pointed to a growing effort by the city and police to confront racial issues head on, to bring more officers of color on the force, and to create review boards to deal with police brutality.
Minneapolis police Deputy Chief Medaria Arradondo said the department recognizes past grievances between the African-American community and police and is working hard to build trust.
‘Even in the midst of protests and demonstrations, we will continue to have important dialogue and conversations to keep moving forward,’ he said.

What a mess things have become… all due to HORRIBLE Leadership being voted into Presidency.

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