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November 24, 2015

Minnesota: 5 Black Lives Matter Protesters Shot by White Suspects 
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In Minneapolis, Minnesota, five Black Lives Matter protesters have been
shot and wounded. They say the shooters were white supremacists, at
least one of whom was wearing a mask. The protesters were gathered at an
encampment outside a police precinct where they have been protesting the
police killing of unarmed African-American Jamar Clark. Activists say
the white supremacists opened fire after a group of protesters attempted
to herd them away from the encampment. Jie Wronski-Riley described the
shooting to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Jie Wronski-Riley: "Then it was like they turned around and then they
just like started shooting, and at first I wasn't sure, I was like, are
they shooting firecrackers? Because it was so loud and there was all
this sulfur or whatever, and then it was like, the person right next to
me on my left went down, the person on my right went down, and I was
like, [expletive], they are actually shooting at us, they are shooting
bullets at us." 
Activists said police took a long time to respond to the shooting and
then used mace on bystanders.

 

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