Black Lives Matter protestors shot near Minneapolis police station

[LiberalArkie]

Three masked men opened fire on Black Lives Matter activists late Monday night not far from Minneapolis’ 4th Precinct police station. Approximately 200 protesters have maintained a presence at the police station since November 15th, after the police shooting death last week of 24-year old Jamar Clark. Witnesses say Clark, who was alleging interfering with paramedics who had been called to assist his girlfriend, was restrained with handcuffs when he was shot. The name of the officer involved in the shooting has not been released. Neither have videos that activists and community members say may have captured the shooting.

Police have told media that five people were shot; however, organizers with Black Lives Matter-Minneapolis say they have only heard that the number was four. None of the victims’ injuries are life-threatening.

Two of the protesters, Jie Wronski-Riley and Oluchi Omeoga, told Daily Kos what they saw.

Wronski-Riley says: “[The protesters] discovered some white supremacists in the crowd trying to start stuff, and as we were trying to escort them out of the community space, they turned around as they were running away and shot at us.” Wronski-Riley told Daily Kos that the protesters followed the men about a half block away from the encampment but stopped because “[we knew] that they were trying to set us up and isolate us,” and that four members of the group continued to follow the men and that’s when the shooting started. “… it was so loud but I thought it was fire crackers, and I was like ‘surely they’re not shooting at us, they’re not shooting at actual people.

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http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/24/1453793/-Black-Lives-Matter-protestors-shot-near-Minneapolis-police-station

[lovemydog]

1. So tragic.

Black lives matter.

[Spazito]

2. It's a sad and frightening state of affairs when peaceful protests by Black Lives Matter...

become a potential life or death situation for them.

Black Lives Matter.