WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Minneapolis officials are hiding information and evidence in the police killing of African American man Jamar Clark, advocacy group Communities United Against Police Brutality President Michelle Gross told Sputnik on Thursday.
"From the beginning, Minneapolis city officials have pledged transparency while engaging in a cover-up," Gross told Sputnik. "They hid the names of the officers for four days, while planting false rumors and innuendo about the man these officers killed."
On Sunday, police fatally shot 24-year-old Jamar Clark in the head. According to activists, Clark was lying handcuffed on the ground and not resisting at the time of the shooting, while police claim he was not handcuffed and tried to disarm an officer.
"The city is stating they won't release the videos over a concern that doing so would corrupt witnesses, but they waited… to interview the officers involved — and won't say whether officers viewed the videos first."
Minneapolis residents went to protest after the police released on Wednesday the names of the two officers involved in the killing of Jamar Clark.
The United States has seen waves of protests against police brutality in the past year and a half following police killing of primarily unarmed citizens. US police have killed at least 1,000 Americans in 2015.
