Two Minneapolis police officers will not face criminal charges in the shooting death of a 24-year-old black man last November, as the evidence showed Jamar Clark was not handcuffed and had access to an officer’s gun, a county prosecutor said on Wednesday.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said at a news conference that the evidence showed Clark struggled with officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze and at one point had his hand on a gun during the incident.
Clark’s shooting came at a time of fierce national debate over the use of lethal force by police, especially against black men. Minneapolis is one of a number of U.S. cities that have seen protests over police killings.
Minneapolis police said they responded to a report of an assault in north Minneapolis shortly after midnight on Nov. 15, and said Clark was shot during a struggle after he confronted paramedics and disrupted their ability to give aid to his girlfriend. He died the next day at the hospital.
Some witnesses had said Clark was handcuffed or restrained on the ground when he was shot.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-minnesota-police-idUSKCN0WW1L9
“…the evidence showed Jamar Clark was not handcuffed and had access to an officer’s gun..”
“Some witnesses had said Clark was handcuffed or restrained on the ground when he was shot.”
What exactly is the “evidence” we’re taking about?
The lying pigs said he went for their gun, as is one of their stand-by excuses for killing someone, and the uninvolved witnesses say he was handcuffed.
Who has both the motive, and the long history of lying in court?
Sounds to me like the pigs just blew this guy away in handcuffs, as they’ve done on many other occasions, and the prosecutor, as usual, wants them to continue doing so.
Policy enforcement is for the benefit of the ruling class.
There is no Republican or Democrat.
There is no conservative or liberal.
There is no Republic or Communism.
there is only a ruling class and a slave class.
“had access to an officer’s gun”…that’s a new excuse I haven’t heard before. Usually they pull some prefabricated excuse out of their ass like, I was in fear of my life, he made a furtive movement, his hand went for a weapon, he had a stick…endless excuses. Sometimes they don’t even care an shoot a handcuffed person in the back who was running away like what happened in Las Vegas years ago. It’s a sick and perverted world with these uniformed thugs.