Counterdemonstrators described as "a group of white supremacists" opened fire on protesters near a Black Lives Matter camp in Minneapolis Monday evening, according to reports. The Minneapolis Police Department reported that all victims received "non-life threatening injuries."
White supremacists shot 2 people at the 4th precinct tonight. #4thPrecinctShutDown pic.twitter.com/QBoowrpyjf
— Patience Zalanga (@babewiththecam) November 24, 2015 From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
Jie Wronski-Riley said angry protesters moved the counter-demonstrators away from the encampment at the police station. Wronski-Riley heard what sounded like firecrackers and thought, “surely they’re not shooting human beings.” Two young black men on either side of him were hit, one in the back and leg, the other in the arm.
At least two of the three men who had been taunting protesters were firing guns, said Wronski-Riley, who described the incident as “really chaotic, really fast.”
Protesters have been encamped outside the Fourth Police Precint since the Nov. 15 officer-involved fatal shooting of Jamar Clark, 24, who some witnesses say was handcuffed when he was shot.
According to Twitter feeds of those at the site, the protesters maintain their presence.
This is the current scene, things have calmed down, ppl are shaken but in high spirits #4thPrecinctShutDown pic.twitter.com/hda1N5eSaq
— |||| || ||| | |||| | (@micamaryjane) November 24, 2015
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