>saw this at 2am last night and figured there'd be a plat
>thread by morning
>
>from the washpost:
>
>Simmering racial tensions have boiled over yet again after
>several men shot five people who had been protesting the
>recent police killing of an African American man in
>Minneapolis.
>
>The shooting occurred late Monday night about a block from
>Minneapolis Police Department’s 4th Precinct, where
>protesters have held daily demonstrations since the fatal Nov.
>15 police shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark.
>
>Police announced on social media that five people suffered
>non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, and that officers were
>searching for “3 white male suspects” who fled the scene.
>
>A police spokesman confirmed to The Washington Post that those
>shot had been protesting outside the police station before the
>incident.
>
>“Tonight, white supremacists attacked the
>‪#‎4thPrecinctShutDown‬ in an act of domestic
>terrorism,” Black Lives Matter Minneapolis said on Facebook.
>“We won’t be intimidated.”
>
>Though Clark’s family called for the protests to come to an
>end following the shooting, Black Lives Matter Minneapolis
>vowed to return to the police station for another
>demonstration on Tuesday.
>
> Wear all black tomorrow. 2pm at the precinct. We will not
>be intimidated. #4thPrecinctShutDown
>
> — Black Lives MPLS (@BlackLivesMpls) November 24, 2015
>
>A video recorded by a journalist at the scene showed people
>fleeing from the shooting — then screaming for an ambulance.
>A young African American man was seen writhing in pain with an
>apparent gunshot wound to the leg while fellow protesters —
>then police and paramedics — tried to help.
>
>Details of the shooting, however, remain murky.
>
>Oluchi Omeoga, a young protester who has participated in the
>demonstrations since last Monday, said she witnessed the
>incident.
>
>Omeoga and her fellow protesters saw three people wearing
>masks who “weren’t supposed to be there,” she told the
>Associated Press. When the three interlopers left the crowd
>and began walking down the street, a few protesters followed
>them. But when the three men reached a corner, she said, they
>pulled out weapons and fired at the protesters.
>
>“A group of white supremacists showed up at the protest, as
>they have done most nights,” Miski Noor, a Black Lives
>Matter organizer, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
>
>Police have not confirmed or denied Noor’s claim.
>
>>black teen shot 16 times]
>
>Noor said the white men “opened fire on about six
>protesters,” after the protesters tried to herd the men away
>from the protest area.
>
>Dana Jaehnert, another demonstrator, told the newspaper that
>one of the men wore a mask. She said she heard four gunshots.
>
>Jie Wronski-Riley, a student at the University of Minnesota,
>told the Star Tribune that the shooting occurred as protesters
>tried to move the counter-demonstrators, who had been taunting
>protesters, away from the protesters’ camp in front of the
>police station. Suddenly, Wronski-Riley heard what sounded
>like firecrackers.
>
>“Surely they’re not shooting human beings,” he thought
>to himself before looking down and realizing that two African
>American men on either side of him had been hit, he told the
>Star Tribune, adding that the incident turned “really
>chaotic, really fast.”
>
>Nekima Levy-Pounds, president of the Minneapolis chapter of
>the NAACP, returned to the scene after the shooting incident.
>
>“I am obviously appalled that white supremacists would open
>fire on nonviolent, peaceful protesters,” she told the Star
>Tribune.
>
>Police floodlights illuminate the protest encampment outside
>the 4th Precinct police station November 20, 2015 in
>Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
>
>U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D), who has supported the
>demonstrations, spoke out about the shooting.
>
>“I don’t want to perpetuate rumor,” he said, according
>to Minnesota Public Radio. “I’d rather just try to get the
>facts out. That’s a better way to go. I know there’s a lot
>of speculation as to who these people were. And they well
>could have been, I’m not trying to say they weren’t white
>supremacists. But I just haven’t been able to piece together
>enough information to say with any real clarity.”
>
>The shooting occurred the night before the one-year
>anniversary of a Missouri grand jury’s decision against
>indicting white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the
>fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. That
>decision reignited powerful frustrations about America’s
>policing of African Americans.
>
>In Minneapolis, protesters have been camping out in front of
>the 4th Precinct since Nov. 15, when two MPD officers were
>involved in the contentious killing of Jamar Clark.
>
>>Jamar Clark are identified]
>
>Authorities said officers were responding to a call for help
>from paramedics, who said Clark was interrupting their
>attempts to help an assault victim. Clark, who was unarmed,
>was also a suspect in the assault, police said.
>
>“At some point during an altercation that ensued between the
>officers and the individual, an officer discharged his weapon,
>striking the individual,” the state Department of Public
>Safety said in Nov. 17 statement.
>
>Clark died in a hospital a day after being shot.
>
>Even before his death, however, his shooting was already
>causing outrage. Several witnesses claimed that Clark was
>handcuffed at the time of the fatal shooting, although police
>claimed otherwise. The Minnesota Department of Public
>Safety’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is now
>investigating the shooting at the request of MPD.
>
>As protests gained strength last week, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy
>Hodges also asked the Justice Department to open a federal
>civil rights investigation into the shooting.
>
>Both Black Lives Matter organizers and the Minneapolis NAACP
>have called on authorities to release video of the shooting.
>
>>shot by police]
>
>But Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton said Monday that video footage
>taken from an ambulance at the scene was inconclusive. Dayton,
>who met with protesters and Clark’s family on Saturday, said
>he has urged federal investigators to release the tapes as
>soon as possible.
>
>Although largely peaceful, the demonstrations have been
>disrupted by several other incidents. More than 50 protesters
>were arrested on Nov. 16 after they shut down a highway. And
>on Friday, police announced they had arrested two men for
>spray-painting profanity on the 4th precinct’s walls.
>
>After Monday night’s shooting, Clark’s family thanked
>protesters for their “incredible support” but said
>protests outside the police station should stop.
>
>“Thank you to the community for the incredible support you
>have shown for our family in this difficult time,” Jamar
>Clark’s brother, Eddie Sutton, said in a statement,
>according to Minnesota Public Radio. “We appreciate Black
>Lives Matter for holding it down and keeping the protests
>peaceful.
>
>“But in light of tonight’s shootings, the family feels out
>of imminent concern for the safety of the occupiers, we must
>get the occupation of the 4th precinct ended onto the next
>step.”
>
>This story has been updated.


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