One man is dead and 11 people suffered non-life-threatening wounds in a shooting in Minneapolis, police there said early Sunday.
Minneapolis police had first said 10 people had been shot with “various severity levels of injuries,” but revised their total upward in a tweet posted just after 3 a.m. The man died at the hospital, not at the scene, according to the police daily media briefing sheet.
No one was in custody in connection with the shooting as of 4 a.m., according to a police release that said preliminary investigation indicated that “individuals on foot” started shooting around 12:30 a.m. and later fled the scene.
An initial tweet from Minneapolis police advised the public to avoid the area in Uptown Minneapolis, a commercial district that includes several bars and restaurants. Minnesota began allowing bars and restaurants to reopen with limited service on June 1 after some six weeks of closure because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Photographs posted to social media showed windows at the Landmark’s Uptown Theatre and another storefront shot out.
Screams were audible on a live video posted to Facebook that showed the aftermath at the scene. Small crowds of people gathered, with some crouched over victims lying on the pavement before police officers on bicycles showed up to attend to them. Splatters of blood on the pavement were visible in the video after the victims were taken to local hospitals — some via ambulance and others in private vehicles, according to the police release.
The area is about 3 miles (5 kilometers) west of the Minneapolis commercial area and neighborhood hit by rioting in the wake of George Floyd’s May 25 death after being arrested by Minneapolis police.
Floyd’s death has sparked a move to overhaul the Minneapolis Police Department, with a majority of City Council members pledging support for dismantling a department that many community activists have called brutal and racist. That’s prompted pushback from opponents who question how citizens will be protected from violent crime. Even the most aggressive proponents for change have acknowledged it’s many months away and they’re not sure what it will look like.
The injured were all adults, the police release said. The victim’s identity will be released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office.
(AP)
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Quick! Call in the social workers, the community organizers and the crisis specialists!
Wow! An AP article that uses the word “riot”. It’s a small gesture towards emes but we appreciate it.
Defund the Police!
Oh wait. What’s this? There new self appointed sheriff committing actsof police brutality?
I hope now the eyebrows of the average Yid will rise up and see where this country has fallen, how fast and deep are its wounds……Why is he so attached to this medina? For a glorious past that he has no place in now? What is keeping him here? The job? He can have that in Israel, macht a leiben in Eretz HaChaim too now. Just telecommute……What is holding the Yid back from aliyah? The “Tziyonim”???? The Arabs? How does rioting in the streets and no police to stop it sound to this Yid? This galus loving and Israel despising Yid? Israel you visit but no….not to live there…..You gap year it like an orthodontist and your kids braces. No…..never to live there…..why its…its unfathomable!!!! Well…..it looks like the final poseik of the exile is that rampaging ethnic rioter……he will make the difficult choice so much easier
Oh my goodness! Now these poor shooters will be hunted down like animals by the brutal and racist police! Quick, eveybody kneel in solidarity with the poor, poor victims – of the police!
Send in Obama he used to be a community organizer.