MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a Minneapolis police officer has pushed racial tensions in the city’s small but concentrated minority community to the fore, with a police precinct besieged by a makeshift encampment and hundreds of protesters in recent days. Police have tried to improve race relations in […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — 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) — State investigators looking into the fatal shooting of a black Minneapolis man by police during a scuffle have several partial videos of the incident but won’t release them at this time, despite demands from protesters, an official said Tuesday. Jamar ONeal Clark, 24, died Monday evening, a day after he was shot […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — 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 […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota agency is investigating the shooting by a Minneapolis police officer of a black man suspected in an assault, an incident that sparked protests and prompted a community forum with the mayor and police chief. Accounts from some witnesses that the man was handcuffed when he was shot early Sunday […]
