2nd probe: No charges in shooting of black man

Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS

For the second time this year, authorities say there is not enough evidence to charge two white Minneapolis police officers in the November shooting death of a black man after a confrontation.

Wednesday’s announcement in the just-completed federal investigation angered activists who protested 24-year-old Jamar Clark’s death for weeks and remain outraged that both probes, the other released in March by a state prosecutor, came to the same conclusion.

“We are tired of what is happening, and what feels like Jim Crow North,” Minneapolis NAACP President Nekima Levy-Pounds told reporters after U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said there was insufficient evidence to support criminal civil rights charges against the two officers.

The officers, Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze, were trying to arrest Clark when he was shot once in the head Nov. 15. He died a day later.

A key issue in both investigations was whether Clark was handcuffed when he was shot. The federal and state probes came to the same conclusion: Clark was not.