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Brickbat

(19,339 posts) Wed Mar 30, 2016, 12:37 PM Mar 2016

No charges against police officers in Jamar Clark shooting death

No charges will be filed against the two Minneapolis officers involved in the shooting death last fall of Jamar Clark, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Wednesday.

For more than 30 minutes in a downtown Minneapolis news conference and with Clark’s family and supporters present, Freeman laid out in meticulous detail the evidence that led to his decision.

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Plans for two gatherings in response to Freeman’s decision have been announced. A rally organized by Justice4Jamar, is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. at Plymouth and James Avenues N., near where Clark was shot. The groups Black Lives Matter Minneapolis and Justice4Jamar announced on Facebook a gathering at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Elliot Park, just south of downtown Minneapolis.

Clark, 24, a black man, was shot in the head during the scuffle with the two white Minneapolis police officers on Nov. 15. The shooting led to international attention, widespread local protests, and an 18-day encampment outside the police department’s Fourth Precinct in north Minneapolis, near the site of the shooting.

http://www.startribune.com/county-attorney-decision-on-jamar-clark-shooting-set-for-10-30-a-m-today/373979481/

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No charges against police officers in Jamar Clark shooting death (Original Post) Brickbat Mar 2016 OP

More deets: Brickbat Mar 2016 #1

There's a big document dump going on, but with plenty of documents not included, such as (at this Brickbat Mar 2016 #2

"If the city burns, it's on your hands," says NAACP communications director (and city council Brickbat Mar 2016 #3

Eyewitness statements generally don't match officer statements. For example, no other witneses than Brickbat Mar 2016 #4

This should not be a surprise. There is seldom and indictment jwirr Mar 2016 #5

Not surprised at all. Brickbat Mar 2016 #6

I don't think the response surprises me. This is happening jwirr Mar 2016 #7

Kick pintobean Mar 2016 #8

Brickbat

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1. More deets:

Reply to Brickbat (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 01:00 PM

Mar 2016

Officers told Clark to put his hands in his pockets and he wouldn’t. Officer Mark Ringgenberg put his gun back in the holster and grabbed Clark’s right wrist. Officer Dustin Schwarze grabbed Clark’s other arm and dropped the handcuffs while trying to cuff him. Ringgenberg then tried a takedown move and they both fell to the ground and Ringgenberg’s back was to Clark’s stomach. Ringgenberg felt his gun go from his hip to the small of his back. Ringgenberg reached back and felt Clark’s hand on his gun. He repeatedly told Schwarze: “He’s got my gun, he’s got my gun.’

Schwarze put his gun to edge of Clark’s mouth and said “Let go or I’m going to shoot you.”

Schwarze said Clark looked at him and said “I’m ready to die.”

Schwarze pulled the trigger once, but the slide caught. He pulled the trigger again and the gun went off, 61 seconds after the intitial encounter began.

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

2. There's a big document dump going on, but with plenty of documents not included, such as (at this

Reply to Brickbat (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 01:33 PM

Mar 2016

time) the officers' statements.

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

3. "If the city burns, it's on your hands," says NAACP communications director (and city council

Reply to Brickbat (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 01:34 PM

Mar 2016

candidate) to county attorney.

Brickbat

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4. Eyewitness statements generally don't match officer statements. For example, no other witneses than

Reply to Brickbat (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 01:45 PM

Mar 2016

the officers (two of whom sat together, unattended, in the back of a police car after the shooting for some time) reported hearing Clark talking about wanting to die.

There is some incomplete and difficult to see video of the takedown, which didn't look much like resisting at all.

He was shot 61 seconds after police arrived.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

5. This should not be a surprise. There is seldom and indictment

Reply to Brickbat (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 01:57 PM

Mar 2016

against the police. That is the problem. No deterrence.

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

6. Not surprised at all.

Reply to jwirr (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 02:04 PM

Mar 2016

Unless it's by the lack of response here. This case wasn't as high profile as some, but I could never figure out why, particularly in light of the protests and occupations that went on earlier with them.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

7. I don't think the response surprises me. This is happening

Reply to Brickbat (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 02:09 PM

Mar 2016

so often that there is little left to say. We hate it, we want ti stopped, and we seem to be getting nowhere.

I do not respond on all of them - today I am feeling a bit more fed up.

pintobean

(18,101 posts)

8. Kick

Reply to Brickbat (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 07:04 PM

Mar 2016

Maybe it will do better this evening.

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