Activists irate over federal probe of US police shooting of black man
US prosecutors have sparked outrage among activists by failing to charge a couple of Minneapolis police officers involved in a fatal shooting of a black man.
US Attorney Andrew Luger said at a press conference on Wednesday that there was not enough evidence to bring charges against the two white officers for the shooting of the 24-year-old Jamar Clark.
The remarks came after a second federal investigation into the incident was completed. The first probe was released in March.
The findings angered activists who had protested Clark’s death for weeks. Nekima Levy-Pounds, president of NAACP civil rights organization, condemned the results of the months-long investigation, saying, "We are tired of what is happening.”
Levy-Pounds also said that community groups who protested the shooting were barred from attending the news conference held at a FBI building, where Luger and other federal officials announced the results.
She added that it was unacceptable that federal officials had excluded the activists who have been working for Clark’s justice.
Officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze, both white, fatally shot Clark in an altercation in November 15. Clark died of his wounds the next day.
Eyewitnesses said the man was shot “execution-style” as he was handcuffed, but Minneapolis police insisted that Clark was not in handcuffs.
Local authorities refused to charge the policemen in March, arguing that they were justifiably in fear for their lives as Clark tried to get hold of an officer's gun.
Clark’s death sparked demonstrations in the city's small but concentrated minority community.
Police in the United States fatally shot nearly 1,000 people in 2015, of which 90 were unarmed and did not possess weapons of any kind during a confrontation, according to a year-long study by the Washington Post.
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