County attorney: Suspects in attack on protesters are ‘sick people’ (MN)

December 18, 2015 By Adam Uren

... “There is no doubt that the attack by the four was racially motivated,” Freeman said. “The defendants’ own statements, their videos, show that these are sick people. Maybe I shouldn’t say that, but the language they use, and what they say about fellow Americans, citizens, are just not acceptable” ...

Scarsella, 23, of Lakeville, is accused of shooting five people near the Minneapolis Police Department’s Fourth Precinct on Nov. 23, during a protest against the fatal shooting of Jamar Clark by police ...

Scarsella was initially charged with second-degree assault, but this was replaced with first-degree after it emerged one of the victims, 19-year-old Tevin King, has a bullet in his abdomen that is so close to major arteries that it can’t be removed, the county attorney said.

The criminal complaint notes a video uploaded to YouTube appears to feature Scarsella and another man on their way to the protest a few days before the shooting on Nov. 19, in which they make racist comments. The video ends with one of them saying, “Stay white” ...

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