{"id":21901,"date":"2016-03-30T15:11:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T22:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=21901"},"modified":"2016-03-30T15:13:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T22:13:36","slug":"county-attorney-press-conference-no-charges-minneapolis-police-officers-jamar-clark-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=21901","title":{"rendered":"County Attorney Press Conference:  No charges against Minneapolis police officers in Jamar Clark shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"l-article-topper\">\n<h1 class=\"article-headline\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Jamar Clark was not handcuffed and refused to take his hand off an officer&#8217;s gun, so a second officer shot Clark in the head, County Attorney Mike Freeman spelled out, based on the investigation.<\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"zone-1-block-1-sideways-inline-top\" class=\"sideways-ad ad-mod dfp-ad-container\" data-appear-top-offset=\"300\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-byline-mod\">\n<div class=\"article-byline\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>By <a title=\"Paul Walsh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/paul-walsh\/10646171\/\" rel=\"author\" data-linkname=\"Paul Walsh\" data-linktype=\"author\" data-modulename=\"Article\" data-moduletype=\"zone1-content\" data-position=\"0-1-author\">Paul Walsh<\/a>, <a title=\"David Chanen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/david-chanen\/10644586\/\" rel=\"author\" data-linkname=\"David Chanen\" data-linktype=\"author\" data-modulename=\"Article\" data-moduletype=\"zone1-content\" data-position=\"0-2-author\">David Chanen<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a title=\"Libor Jany\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/libor-jany\/219430401\/\" rel=\"author\" data-linkname=\"Libor Jany\" data-linktype=\"author\" data-modulename=\"Article\" data-moduletype=\"zone1-content\" data-position=\"0-3-author\">Libor Jany<\/a><\/strong> Star Tribune<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-dateline\">MARCH 30, 2016 \u2014 4:44PM<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-dateline\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"l-article-body\">\n<div class=\"article-featured-media-wrapper is-video \">\n<div class=\"article-featured-video-mod js-video-mod is-standalone-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"article-media__video\" src=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/video\/embed\/374005531\/?load_location=Article&amp;article_title=No%20charges%20against%20Minneapolis%20police%20officers%20in%20Jamar%20Clark%20shooting&amp;article_author=Paul%20Walsh,%20David%20Chanen%20and%20Libor%20Jany&amp;embed_site=http:\/\/www.startribune.com&amp;sz=\/7932\/Website\/WEB_Video\/WEB_Video_User_Initiated&amp;page_level=Article&amp;section_name=Minneapolis&amp;soft_load=true\" name=\"stribVideoEmbed\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-featured-video-mod js-video-mod is-standalone-video\"><span class=\"tease-photo-caption toggle-photo-caption icn-video\">The Henn<\/span><span class=\"tease-photo-caption toggle-photo-caption icn-video\">epin County Attorney&#8217;s office showed the video from the Jamar Clark shooting at a press conference on Wednesday morning.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"article-share\">\n<div class=\"share__textsize\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"share__print clickQS\">\n<div class=\"share-label\">No charges will be filed against the two Minneapolis officers involved in the shooting death last fall of Jamar Clark, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Wednesday, citing DNA and other evidence showing Clark was not handcuffed during the altercation and he refused to let go of an officer\u2019s holstered gun during the late-night struggle outside an apartment building.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"article-body resizeFont\">\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">For more than 30 minutes in a downtown Minneapolis news conference and with Clark\u2019s family and supporters present, Freeman laid out in meticulous detail the evidence that led to his decision and showed video from the scene on Plymouth Avenue N.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Clark, 24, a black man, was shot in the head during the scuffle with the two white Minneapolis police officers, Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze, on Nov. 15 as Clark confronted paramedics placing his injured girlfriend in an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">The shooting led to international attention, widespread local protests, and an 18-day encampment outside the police department\u2019s Fourth Precinct in north Minneapolis, near the site of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">In a prelude to rolling out the evidence followed by his decision, Freeman nodded to the spate of killings of black citizens by police officers in Chicago, Cleveland and elsewhere in the past year or so, saying, \u201cThis case is not at all similar to others seen around the country,\u201d he said. The officers \u201cdid not have an opportunity to withdraw\u201d from the physical conflict with Clark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Speaking for the officers later Wednesday, police union President Lt. Bob Kroll said the two \u201canticipated this [outcome]. They knew they had to do what they had to do. \u2026 They felt terrible about it. \u2026 Their families have gone through a hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-media \">\n<div class=\"related-media-wrapper is-video\"><a class=\"related-media-link js-video-modal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/video\/embed\/374013791?load_location=Article&amp;article_title=Watch:%20Freeman%20explains%20why%20officers%20weren%27t%20charged%20in%20Clark%20shooting&amp;article_author=&amp;embed_site=http:\/\/www.startribune.com&amp;sz=\/7932\/Website\/WEB_Video\/WEB_Video_User_Initiated&amp;page_level=Article&amp;section_name=Local&amp;auto_start=y\" data-modal-title=\"Watch: Freeman explains why officers weren't charged in Clark shooting\" data-modal-summary=\"The Hennepin County Attorney said dozens of videos, witness statements and forensic evidence points to justifiable officer force.\" data-video-src=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/video\/embed\/374013791?load_location=Article&amp;article_title=Watch: Freeman explains why officers weren't charged in Clark shooting&amp;article_author=&amp;embed_site=http:\/\/www.startribune.com&amp;sz=\/7932\/Website\/WEB_Video\/WEB_Video_User_Initiated&amp;page_level=Article&amp;section_name=Local&amp;auto_start=y\" data-linkname=\"Watch: Freeman explains why officers weren't charged in Clark shooting\" data-linktype=\"related video\" data-modulename=\"Article\" data-moduletype=\"zone1-content\" data-position=\"0-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stmedia.startribune.com\/images\/jg8CLARK033016.jpg\" alt=\"The Hennepin County Attorney said dozens of videos, witness statements and forensic evidence points to justifiable officer force.\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"related-caption toggle-photo-caption icn-video\">\u00a0Video (02:27): Watch: Freeman explains why officers weren&#8217;t charged in Clark shooting<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Kroll said the evidence confirms what \u201cwe maintained from the start,\u201d and he hopes that anyone disappointed by Freeman\u2019s decision to \u201cpeacefully accept the outcome that exonerated\u201d the officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Much of what the investigation found, including video, was being posted Wednesday on the county attorney\u2019s website. Freeman said \u201cthis degree of transparency \u2026 is unprecedented.\u201d Evidence Freeman released also includes Clark\u2019s autopsy report and full transcriptions of interviews with police and witnesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Kroll said that \u201cmembers of the public demanded an independent investigation, which was conducted by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Members of the public demanded oversight, which a provided by the United States Department of Justice. Members of the public demanded a grand jury process not be used, and the Hennepin County Attorney agreed. &#8230; I don\u2019t know what more they want. It has been as transparent as it can be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">In a written statement, Mayor Betsy Hodges complimented Freeman for his \u201ctransparency \u2026 and his willingness to be publicly accountable for his decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">In the statement, Hodges declined to say whether she agreed with Freeman\u2019s conclusion. At the follow-up news conference, she said she was not ready to endorse the county attorney\u2019s findings. \u201cI have not had a chance to look at the evidence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Police Chief Jane\u00e9 Harteau, said her department will be make no decisions on disciplining the officers until a previously requested federal investigation is concluded and until the department carries out its own internal investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Once Freeman revealed his decision at the news conference, Raeisha Williams, communications director for the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP and a City Council candidate, said, \u201cIf the city burns, it\u2019s on your hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Miski Noor, a Black Lives Matter organizer, downplayed Williams\u2019 comment, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t think Raeisha is advocating [violence]. \u2026 I think her point is people are frustrated and are upset because yet again the justice system does not value black life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Public protest for much of the afternoon has been nominal. Plans for two gatherings in response to Freeman\u2019s decision are in the works. A rally organized by Justice4Jamar, is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. at Plymouth and James Avenues N., near where Clark was shot. The groups Black Lives Matter Minneapolis and Justice4Jamar announced on Facebook a gathering at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Elliot Park, just south of downtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Harteau said her department and other law enforcement agencies have several contingency plans in place should police action against protesters be necessary. \u201cOfficers will exercise restraint,\u201d she said. \u201cTheir actions will be based on the actions of others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">On the North Side, some businesses announced early in the afternoon that they were closing, including Cub Foods on Broadway, one of the few supermarket options for residents in that part of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">At the scene where Clark was shot, a handful of protesters briefly obstructed vehicles passing by. They stood in the street and strung a bench and other items across the lanes in both directions. A makeshift memorial to Clark clung to a tree nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Outside the Fourth Precinct, officers sporting shielded helmets took up position. Nearby was a \u201cpeace pole\u201d that read, \u201cMay Peace Prevail on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">In his detailed account of the night Clark was shot, Freeman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Officers told Clark to take his hands out of his pockets and he wouldn\u2019t. Ringgenberg, who had initially drawn his gun, put it back in the holster and grabbed Clark\u2019s right wrist. Schwarze grabbed Clark\u2019s other arm and dropped his handcuffs while trying to cuff him. Ringgenberg then tried a takedown move of Clark, and they both fell to the ground with Ringgenberg\u2019s back to Clark\u2019s stomach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Ringgenberg felt his holstered gun go from his hip to the small of his back. Ringgenberg reached back and felt Clark\u2019s hand on his gun. He repeatedly told Schwarze: \u201cHe\u2019s got my gun, he\u2019s got my gun.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-media \">\n<div class=\"related-media-wrapper is-gallery\">\n<div class=\"related-media-gallery js-gallery-modal\">\n<div class=\"expand-icn-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stmedia.startribune.com\/images\/jh3CLARK033116.jpg\" alt=\"Joyce Powell, a relative of Jamar Clark weap at the site where he was shot In north Minneapolis.\" \/><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image-tracking\" src=\"http:\/\/apps.startribune.com\/circulars\/images\/blank.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>JERRY HOLT, STAR TRIBUNE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"related-caption toggle-photo-caption\">Schwarze put his gun to edge of Clark\u2019s mouth and said, \u201cLet go or I\u2019m going to shoot you.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Schwarze said Clark looked at him and said \u201cI\u2019m ready to die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Schwarze pulled the trigger once, but the slide caught. He pulled the trigger again and the gun went off, 61 seconds after the officers first encountered Clark. He died the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Freeman said the handcuffs were found afterward in the grass near where Clark had been shot. Freeman said they were unclasped and had Clark\u2019s blood on them on one side, leaving investigators to conclude they were not on Clark\u2019s wrists when Schwarze fired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Also, Freeman continued, there was no DNA from Clark on the inside of the handcuffs, nor did an autopsy find any cuff marks on his wrists. Clark\u2019s DNA was found on the grip of Ringgenberg\u2019s gun, the county attorney added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Video was then shown of some of the events that Freeman chronicled. As the video showed Ringgenberg taking down Clark, someone shouted to Freeman, \u201cHow is that resisting?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Once Freeman offered to take questions at the news conference, Clark supporters peppered him with questions and statements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">One person said Freeman did not give a \u201cfair and accurate account\u201d of what happened. When asked, Freeman acknowledged that investigators know only of the officers saying they heard Clark say, \u201cI\u2019m ready to die.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-media \">\u00a0In a follow-up conference call with reporters, Freeman said the takedown move used by Ringgenberg on Clark is \u201cnot favored\u201d by the Minneapolis Police Department and is a technique the officer learned while on the San Diego force.<\/div>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">At the same time, Freeman added, \u201cYou have to remember that Clark had resisted arrest and officers were already concerned he had beaten up his girlfriend and been told he interfered with medical personnel. He was told to take his hands out of his pocket and he refused, which is problematic for cops because it was dark out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Freeman said that 10 police officers and paramedics said Clark was not handcuffed, while 20 civilian witnesses also weighed in to investigators. He said two reported that Clark was not handcuffed, six were unsure, and 12 said he was. Of those 12, the county attorney continued, some said Clark was cuffed in front of his body, others said behind his back and still others said he was cuffed on one hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Nekima Levy-Pounds, head of the Minneapolis NAACP, attended Freeman\u2019s news conference and said to him, \u201cYou did not give any credence or credibility to what the witnesses on the North Side had to say. You have not held one single officer accountable who has killed someone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Charles Samuelson, head of the Twin Cities chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, noting that Clark was shot about a minute after the police arrived, said, \u201c[They] should have allowed for more time to address the situation fully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Police had been called on a report that Clark assaulted his girlfriend, Ray Ann Hayes, and blocked paramedics from trying to treat her on the street in the 1600 block of Plymouth Avenue N. At one point, Freeman said Wednesday, Hayes told paramedics \u201cthat\u2019s the guy who did this to me\u201d while pointing out Clark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Ringgenberg, 30, and Schwarze, 29, were placed on administrative leave but returned to police desk jobs in January. Kroll, the police union chief, said he thinks the two \u201cshould have already been restored\u201d to their previous duties, and this is \u201ca dispute we are having with the chief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Both officers have more than seven years of policing experience, including the past 17 months with Minneapolis. Neither has had any disciplinary actions since they joined the Minneapolis force, according to the police union.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-media \">\n<div class=\"related-byline\">A relative of Jamar Clark is comforted Wednesday afternoon near the scene where he died in North Minneapolis. Clark was shot and killed in November 2015, in an altercation with Minneapolis police officers.<\/div>\n<div class=\"related-caption toggle-photo-caption\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"related-caption toggle-photo-caption\">Schwarze, while a Richfield police officer, is accused in a still-pending lawsuit to have deployed a Taser on the passenger of a vehicle pulled over by officers in December 2011. He also is accused of threatening to beat the tased victim and a second passenger if they got out of the vehicle.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">While Ringgenberg was a San Diego police officer, he was sued in federal court in 2012 for alleged rough treatment of a suspect resisting arrest. The suit was dismissed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"zone-1-block-40-sideways-inline-body\" class=\"sideways-ad ad-mod dfp-ad-container\" data-appear-top-offset=\"300\">\u00a0The BCA investigated the Clark case and turned over its findings to Freeman in February. Earlier this month, Freeman reversed decades of precedent and announced he would not use a grand jury in police-involved shootings, including in the Clark case.<\/div>\n<p class=\"Text_Endnote\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No charges will be filed against the two Minneapolis officers involved in the shooting death last fall of Jamar Clark, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Wednesday, citing DNA and other evidence showing Clark was not handcuffed during the altercation and he refused to let go of an officer\u2019s holstered gun during the late-night struggle outside an apartment 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