MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man was killed Thursday when authorities who were part of a task force that included U.S. Marshals fired their weapons after he allegedly displayed a handgun in Minneapolis’ Uptown neighborhood, the U.S. Marshals said.
The shooting happened shortly after 2 p.m. Thursday. The U.S. Marshals said preliminary information indicates task force members were attempting to arrest a man wanted on a state warrant for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
The man, who was in a parked car, didn’t comply with law enforcement and “produced a handgun resulting in task force members firing upon the subject,” the U.S. Marshals said in a statement. Task force members attempted life-saving measures, but he died at the scene, they said.
It was not clear how many law enforcement officers fired their weapons. A spokeswoman with the U.S. Marshals said the U.S. Marshals leads the task force, which is comprised of several agencies. Other agencies with personnel on the scene at the time of the shooting include sheriff’s offices from Hennepin, Anoka and Ramsey counties, the Minnesota Department of Corrections and the Department of Homeland Security.
The U.S. Marshals said a female who was in the vehicle was treated for minor injuries due to glass debris.
Oh, another guy who would still be alive if our criminal justice system wasn't completely effed up.
Smith was sentenced to 48 month in prison in Oct. 2018 but his sentence was STAYED by Judge Jay Quam.
HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN PRISON.#MNLEG #MNSEN do something!!!
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Few other details were provided. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms both tweeted that they were responding to help investigate. The Marshals said the state BCA is leading the investigation.
The Minneapolis Police Department said it was not involved in the incident.
A small crowd had gathered in the area in a city that has been on edge since the deaths of George Floyd, a Black man who died last year after he was pinned to the ground by Minneapolis officers, and Daunte Wright, a Black motorist who was fatally shot in April by an officer in the nearby suburb of Brooklyn Park.
Violent protesting and looting by BLM rioters broke out overnight in Minneapolis after the purported law enforcement-involved shooting of an armed criminal who happened to be black. Video by @RebsBrannon: pic.twitter.com/vglgpelmD5
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 4, 2021
The BLM protest in Minneapolis devolved into looting overnight. A large group smashed their way into the @TMobile store. Exceptional video by @RebsBrannon: pic.twitter.com/BCNCcrYCmO
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 4, 2021
Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s death, and three other officers await trial on aiding and abetting charges. Former Brooklyn Park Officer Kim Potter is charged with manslaughter in Wright’s death.
While some members of the crowd shouted expletives at the police on Thursday, overall the crowd remained peaceful.
According to the Star Tribune, an aerial view of the top level of the parking ramp where Thursday’s shooting reportedly occurred showed a silver sport utility vehicle with a shattered back window. It was surrounded by many other vehicles near a white pop-up tent. Several officers were nearby and in a glass-enclosed stairwell.
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let them burn it to the ground the put a giant fence around it and make it “escape form minneapolis” the bed you made and now must lay in it.
More and more, i’d love that TV show/novel by Steven king “Under the Dome” to become reality for ALL of these libtard cities… AND LEAVE that dome up…
“overall the crowd remained peaceful”. Per Andy Ngo, “Violent protesting and looting by BLM rioters broke out overnight in Minneapolis after the purported law enforcement-involved shooting of an armed criminal who happened to be black”. The rioting and looting is “peaceful”. Does the MSM understand that rioting and looting is not peaceful?
WIth the # of reports they had last year, saying “PEACEFUL PROTESTS” WHILE folks in the backround were FIRING fireworks, Tossing molotov cocktails etc, NO THEY DON’T understand rioting is never peaceful..
OR THEY JUST DON”T CARE!
backpacker:
Understand that to Democrats, Truth, Facts, Reality and History are all irrelevant,
if the Democrats do not WANT to believe them.
Democrats will just make up their own Truth, Facts, Reality or History
To fit what they WANT to believe
or fits into the Con or Deception that they are running at the time.
Remember in the Democrat rule Portland OR. the city mayor joined in with the riots, burning and looting.
To the dishonorable, dishonest, unethical, immoral, racist Democrats,
rioting, burning and looting are peaceful acceptable behavior.
How totally backwards everything has become. Never mind the guy who pulled a gun—let’s loot, riot, and “protest” over his apprehension. If any of those UFO’s are accepting passengers, I think I might want to jump on.
Attention America…. when a suspect shows a gun he is now considered to be Unarmed. Photos of his children to follow.
With how these leftists think, EVEN IF HE WAS FIRING A dozen guns at cops, he wold still be called “unarmed”.
Kids can now sleep easy, the “BOOGIE MAN has PAST.
BLM/Antifa are no more than thugs just using these situation to cause damage and hurt people. BLM does not really care about black lives because if it did it would be protesting the Black on Black crime in every major liberal socialist run city.
Not just that, but they WOULDN”T be rioting and committing arson often in areas, WHERE BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES suffer the most from it.
Just thinning the herd…maybe someday only decent law-abiding citizens will remain.
MORE AND MORE i feel TILL WE start holding these DA’s and JUDGES< who keep letting these REPEAT offenders BACK OUT ON THE STREETS, accountable for being an ACCESSORY TO EVERY CRIME THEY COMMIT< it will not do a damn thing, to stop them RESENDING FELONS BACK OUT…
MAYBE ONCE we start seeing some of those judges, themselves, being sent to jail, IT MAY MAKE THE REST think twice…
Hey boogie, I am glad you are now off the streets! You brought it on yourself, and you deserved everything you got! That’s one down, how many to go? It’ll be one bad guy at a time!
When, O when, will enough law abiding citizens say “Enough already” and vote out the left wing political hacks who aid and abet these marxists and anarchists? BLM could care less that another black person has died, except as another opportunity to raise hell.
“George Floyd, a Black man …. and Daunte Wright, a Black motorist…”
Floyd, a black FELON, died of a drug overdose. Namely, three times the lethal dose of fentanyl plus others in his system.
The “motorist”, a BLACK DRUG DEALER WITH WARRANTS, was being arrested for felony charges, refused to obey police directions, and assaulted officers with his vehicle before being shot.
Most of their victims were BLACK also.
He had a gun and fired at cops. Send in the national guard with Shoot to kill. Or return to africa.
They’re looting, shoot them, that’ll stop that real quick…
What the Marxist Communist DemocRATS are doing is right out of the Management 101 playbook. Keep the employees fighting amongst themselves so they won’t unite against management. Substitute American Citizens for employees, and BINGO!!! Make life in the United States SO Miserable, and eventually the Country will beg the government to be the Savior. Their ultimate goal is Total Government Control!!
Let me get this straight: A task force of U.S. Marshals was trying to apprehend an individual who had a state warrant issued against him for being a felon in possession of a firearm. They catch this piece of filth, and he pulls a gun on them, after being told not to, and then gets shot to death. The perp in effect killed himself by not complying. And this is what all of the rioting is about? Defund the Police has turned out to be a tremendous success in Minneapolis. Maybe Jacob Frey, the Stay Puft Marshmellow Mayor, can go out and converse with the rioters, and tell them that he feels their pain, and then everything will be okay. Biden will continue to blame white supremacy and not say anything about the rioting and sharp increase in black crime. C’mon man!