Two arrested over shooting of Black Lives Matter protesters
Two suspects have been apprehended in connection with Monday night’s shootings at Black Lives Matter protesters in the US state of Minneapolis, police officials say.
Two white male suspects, one 23 and the other 32, were arrested on Tuesday and the search is on for the third, the Minneapolis Police Department said.
The shootings occurred late Monday night when unidentified gunmen opened fire at protesters near the Black Lives Matter encampment at the Fourth Precinct police station in north Minneapolis, according to police.
Miski Noor, an organizer of Black Lives Matter at Minneapolis, said the shooting happened as protesters were escorting three white supremacists who had been behaving suspiciously away from the site of the rally. When they reached a dark area, the white supremacists turned around and fired on the demonstrators before fleeing.
Police spokesman John Elder said in a statement that those who were shot sustained non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to a nearby hospital with one shot in the stomach undergoing surgery early Tuesday.
Local Black Lives Matter activists say the gunmen in the attacks were the same white supremacists who had previously threatened them.
Monday night’s shooting and the BLM rally, which was a protest against the killing of unarmed black Jamar Clark on November 15, have garnered nationwide attention.
In New York City, people have planned to gather at Washington Square Park on Wednesday evening.
Police brutality in the United States has raised nationwide debates amid a string of police killings of unarmed black men that led to the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Large-scale demonstrations were held across the country in 2014 after a series of high-profile incidents of white police officers killing unarmed African-American men, including Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio; Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York and Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina.
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