Minnesota protest condemns ruling on police killing of black man
Protesters in the US State of Minnesota have condemned a court decision not to charge a couple of police officers involved in the recent fatal shooting of an unarmed black man.
Demonstrators in the state capital Minneapolis marched on Wednesday against the ruling and urged justice for Jamar Clark, the young African American killed by the two cops last year.
They also demanded an end to what they described as prevalent racism in the US justice system.
The 24-year-old Clark was shot by police last November when officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze were trying to restrain him.
The prosecutor in the case said Wednesday the officers were justifiably in fear for their lives as Clark tried to get hold of an officer's gun.
Police have said the officers were responding to an assault call and found Clark interfering with paramedics. Authorities say there was a struggle and he was shot. Some people in the community say they saw him handcuffed at the time of the shooting.
The head of the Minneapolis police union, Bob Kroll, however, has insisted that Clark was not handcuffed.
Clark’s death sparked demonstrations in the city's small but concentrated minority community.
Police brutality in the United States has raised nationwide debates amid a string of police killings of unarmed black men that has resulted in creating 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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