3 White Men Arrested in Minneapolis Black Lives Matter-Protest Shooting

Minneapolis police arrested three white men Tuesday in connection with a Monday-night shooting that left five Black Lives Matter protesters wounded. Suggested Reading The Root 100 – 2020 Black History Month – 2022 Hip-Hop 50 Year – 2023 Video will return here when scrolled back into view Stefon Diggs and Cardi B Viral Boat Video…

Minneapolis police arrested three white men Tuesday in connection with a Monday-night shooting that left five Black Lives Matter protesters wounded.

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According to the New York Daily News, police arrested a 23-year-old man in Bloomington, a suburb outside Minneapolis, around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. A 26-year-old man and a 21-year-old man turned themselves in around 2:30 p.m. the same day, according to the Minneapolis Police Department, the Daily News reports. Police have not released the suspectsโ€™ names.

Police arrested a fourth man, but he was released shortly after being questioned, and investigators donโ€™t believe that he was involved in the shooting.ย 

Black Lives Matter representative Miski Noor told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that three white men were antagonizing a group of protesters gathered outside the Minneapolis Police Departmentโ€™s 4th Precinct station. Demonstrators have been gathered outside the precinct to demand justice for Jamar Clark, who was reportedly shot while in handcuffs by a police officer Nov. 15. Clark died days later at a local hospital from injuries suffered in the shooting.

Noor told the Star-Tribune that the men antagonizing the protesters used the โ€œn-wordโ€ and that one of the men was wearing a mask.

Police have not released a motive for the shooting of the protesters, but the Minneapolis chapter of Black Lives Matter has called the incident โ€œwhite supremacist terrorism,โ€ the Daily News reports.

Read more at the New York Daily News and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

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