Key Highlights
- Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara said at a news conference that the victim was a 37-year-old white male and a resident of Minneapolis.
- “We believe he is an American citizen,” O’Hara said.
- He said the man was a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry.
- The police chief urged people to “remain peaceful.” “We recognize that there is a lot of anger and a lot of questions around what has happened,” he said.
- Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he had watched a video that appeared to show “more than six masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death.” “How many more lives need to be lost before this administration realizes that a political and partisan narrative is not as important as American values?” asked the mayor at a news conference.
