Man Shot By Police Dies After Night Of BLM Protests, Family Says

cbsMinnesota ^ | 11/17/15 | Staff

[smartyaz]

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Jamar Clark, the 24-year-old north Minneapolis man who was shot by police Sunday, has been taken off life support and has died, according to family members.

Clark’s shooting has ignited a series of protests by the group Black Lives Matter.

On Monday, more than 50 people were arrested during a Black Lives Matter protest that shut down I-94W in Minneapolis for over two hours.

The shooting happened early Sunday morning on Plymouth Avenue North. Police were responding to a report of a man, later identified as Clark, assaulting a woman.

On the way to that call, police were notified that Clark was interfering with paramedics. When police arrived, they say there was a struggle and an officer shot Clark.

Witnesses have said Clark was handcuffed at the time, but police and state investigators say it appears, preliminarily, that was not the case.

Relatives of Clark told WCCO that he has been taken off life support and has died.

[From The Deer Stand]

You know.... if you’re a good boy and don’t cause any trouble the threat of being shot by police is zero. I associate every day with dozens of people who have never been shot by police.

[rdl6989]

Mid-January would be good. I’d love to see the protesters out in the middle of a Minnesota whiteout with 50 mph wind.

[euram]

Sounds like he was waging his personal War on Women, and became a casualty. You would think that women would be on the side of the cops.

[driftless2]

He could have NOT assaulted a woman and the whole problem would have been moot

Irrelevant. A black man was shot by the police. So what if he was beating a woman to death. The most important thing to remember is that a future rocket scientist was killed by the police.

If the police hadn't shown up, this poor young man would still be living. The woman he was beating would probably be dead, but so what? /s