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Minnesota: Officers in Killing of Jamar Clark Will Not Face Federal Charges

HeadlineJun 02, 2016

Federal prosecutors have announced no charges will be filed against the two police officers involved in the fatal shooting of unarmed African American Jamar Clark last fall. Clark was shot in the head after a scuffle with officers who responded to a report of an assault. Black Lives Matter launched an encampment to protest the shooting after multiple witnesses say Clark was shot while handcuffed. On Wednesday, Andrew Luger, U.S. attorney for Minnesota, disputed that account.

Andrew Luger: “Given the lack of bruising, the lack of Mr. Clark’s DNA on the handcuffs, and the deeply conflicted testimony about whether he was handcuffed, we determined that we could not pursue this case based on a prosecution theory that Mr. Clark was handcuffed at the time that he was shot. And, in fact, we reached the conclusion, based on all of the evidence that we reviewed, that the evidence suggested that Mr. Clark was not, in fact, handcuffed when he was shot.”

We’ll go to Minneapolis for more on the shooting of Jamar Clark later in the broadcast.

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