Outrage in Streets over Shooting of Young Unarmed Black Man in Minneapolis
Confronting police at the scene where they shot Jamar Clark, an unarmed Black man. Photo: @McMcdowell397
Occupying the Fourth District police station in Minneapolis, demanding the arrest of the police officer who shot Jamar Clark. Photo: @BlackLivesMpls
November 16, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
As we go to press, people have been in the streets of North Minneapolis for over seven hours in outrage after police shot Jamar Clark, a Black man in his mid-20s, early Sunday morning. Authorities are refusing to disclose his condition, but relatives and activists are reporting he is either “brain dead” or dead. Protesters, including witnesses to the shooting, say Clark was handcuffed and not resisting police when he was shot “execution style” in the words of his family.
People are outraged, defiant and determined—marching, disrupting a community meeting on “police relations,” confronting the police at headquarters. A meeting to “listen” called by Urban League was shut down with chants of “Justice for who? Jamar!” Press accounts and social media report that after the shooting police tried to force people to leave the scene—some reports say police drew guns on protesters—but hundreds of people of many nationalities defied them and declared and enforced a “no-cops zone.” Many in the crowd spoke with intensity and fury about being constantly hounded by police, and people debated how to put a stop to it. Tonight protesters have hung a Black Lives Matter banner at the Fourth Precinct police station and a group at the station is demanding the arrest of the cop. People are bringing in food and blankets.
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