Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman has announced that charges will not be filed against officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze in the shooting death of Jamar Clark.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â Protesters blocked access to a terminal and caused significant holiday traffic delays at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Wednesday during a Black Lives Matter rally that also briefly shut down part of the nation’s largest mall. Access to one of two terminals was closed after more than 100 protesters gathered inside and […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â More than two weeks after protesters built an encampment outside a Minneapolis police station to protest the fatal shooting of a black man by police, officers moved in early Thursday to tear it down and evict the demonstrators. Officers ordered around 50 chanting demonstrators to disperse about 4 a.m., and soon began […]
Prosecutors in Minnesota have brought forth charges against four men connected to the shooting last week at a Black Lives Matter protest that left five…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â The latest in the investigation into the fatal shooting of a black man by Minneapolis police that has sparked more than a week of demonstrations (all times local): 12:30 p.m. Prosecutors are filing charges against four men who were arrested last week after shots were fired at demonstrators protesting the killing of […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â Five people were shot late Monday night near the site of an ongoing protest over the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer, Minneapolis police said. None of the five suffered life-threatening injuries. The shootings occurred late Monday night about a block from the police department’s 4th Precinct, where […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â Two Minneapolis police officers involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man are seven-year veterans, including 13 months each with the city, authorities announced Wednesday. Officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze were identified as the officers who responded to a reported domestic assault shortly after midnight Sunday on the city’s […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â The mayor of Minneapolis on Monday asked for a federal civil rights investigation into the weekend shooting of a black man by a police officer during an apparent struggle. Mayor Betsy Hodges said she wrote to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and to the U.S. attorney for Minnesota […]
Taking a page from the FBI’s COINTELPRO program of the 1960s, “intelligence analysts” from Mall of America in Bloomington, Minneapolis set up a fake Facebook account to…
