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Post by Admin on Dec 24, 2015 19:33:28 GMT
Several hundred Black Lives Matter activists shut down at least one terminal at the Minneapolis-St.Paul International airport Wednesday for about two hours in an afternoon of protest that began miles away at the huge Mall of America. At least two people were arrested in a shoving match at the airport, according to KARE-TV reporter Ben Garvin. The protesters not only disrupted rail traffic to the terminals, they blocked the freeway in front of the airport, snarling holiday traffic on one of the busiest travel days of the year. The protest was aimed at drawing attention to the police shooting last month of Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old black Minneapolis man. Clark died one day after he was shot by officers responding to a complaint of an assault. Most of the protesters came to Terminals 1 and 2 by light rail from the initial demonstration at the mall in suburban Bloomington.
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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2016 18:50:57 GMT
Authorities are investigating and people are protesting the fatal shooting of a black man by police following a traffic stop Wednesday night in Falcon Heights. The man was identified by relatives as Philando Castile, 32, a St. Paul schools employee. Here’s what we know so far: • Police made a traffic stop around 9 p.m. near the intersection of Larpenteur Avenue and Fry Street in Falcon Heights. • An officer fired his weapon and struck the man, who was a cafeteria supervisor at J.J. Hill Montessori School in St. Paul. • Castile was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, where he died at 9:37 p.m. • In the moments after the shooting, a woman who was in the car with Castile shot a video with her cellphone and live-streamed it on Facebook from an account linked to Lavish Reynolds. • The woman, Diamond Reynolds, who identified herself as Castile’s girlfriend, said in the video that “police shot him for no apparent reason, no reason at all.” The video shows the man in the driver’s seat slumped next to her, his white T-shirt soaked with blood on the left side. • Reynolds said Castile was just reaching to get his ID when an officer fired four times. • Reynolds said during a news conference outside the governor's residence Thursday that she and Castile were coming from the grocery store when they were stopped by police for a broken light. She said the light wasn't broken. • Reynolds said she and Castile had been at a shop to get his hair done for his birthday. He would have turned 33 years old on July 16.
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Post by Admin on Jul 13, 2016 18:48:51 GMT
It’s been a long, tragic week. On Tuesday, an officer shot and killed Alton Sterling in Louisiana while he was being held down. Then on Wednesday, Facebook Live captured the death of Philando Castile in Minnesota, who was shot by police during a traffic stop. During a peaceful protest in Dallas on Thursday over those killings, a sniper killed multiple police officers and injured others. To end the week, on Friday, Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters put up a giant sign declaring that “Black Lives Matter” and held a moment of silence for the people who had died. A close-up of the sign shows that the words are formed from individuals’ names, including Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Oscar Grant, Michael Brown, Jordan Davis, Kimani Gray, Renisha McBride, Jonathan Ferrell, and Amadou Diallo.
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Post by Admin on Sept 21, 2016 18:23:24 GMT
Quiet returned to Charlotte streets Wednesday after the police-involved shooting of an African-American man ignited a night of anger and violence that left windows smashed, stores looted, trucks set ablaze and 16 police officers wounded in the melee. The violence erupted hours after the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott, 43, who police say was armed and ignored several commands to drop his weapon. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney, at a news conference Wednesday, rejected claims Scott was holding a book, not a gun, and said the gun had been recovered by detectives. No book was found, Putney added. “It’s time to change the narrative, because I can tell you from the facts that the story’s a little bit different as to how it’s been portrayed so far, especially through social media,” Putney said.
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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2017 18:11:57 GMT
Shop owners and residents were cleaning up broken glass, assessing damage and bracing for more protests Sunday after two nights of violence sparked by the acquittal of a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of a black man. St. Louis County police said they arrested nine people Saturday night and early Sunday in suburban University City, home to Washington University, one day after protests that turned violent led to 33 arrests in two St. Louis neighborhoods. Some stores reopened Sunday despite the damage while artists tried to enhance the appearance of plywood covering broken windows. At least on protest was planned for Sunday, at the police headquarters downtown.
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