A brief diary, which is more of local interest to Minnesotans, but is also more largely related to the Black Lives Matter movement. I’m making a diary about it here because it’s also personal to me.
In the wake of the Nov. 15, 2015 police homicide of Jamar Clark, an unarmed black man, Black Lives Matter and NAACP activists organized an ongoing protest outside the 4th Precinct police station in Minneapolis, which I visited and then diaried about.
Less than 36 hours after I visited, and the evening after I wrote the diary, white supremacists showed up and one shot five of the protesters, thankfully none fatally.
Today, the shooter, Allen Scarsella, was found guilty on all 12 counts of first-degree assault and one count of riot.
www.mprnews.org/…
A jury on Wednesday found Allen Scarsella guilty on all charges tied to his shooting of five black men in north Minneapolis who had been protesting the police killing of Jamar Clark.
Jurors turned aside arguments by Scarsella's attorney that the 24-year-old Bloomington man shot in self-defense on that Nov. 23, 2015 night as he and other companions were pursued by men attending a demonstration near the 4th Precinct police station.
It took 14 months, but there is justice for Scarsella’s five victims.
The police officers who murdered Jamar Clark were never charged.