Five people were shot during a protest for Jamar Clark near a Black Lives Matter encampment in Minneapolis on Monday.
Minneapolis police said the 5 people received “non-life-threatening injuries” and police are actively searching for the shooter or shooters.
NPR.org reports that a group of “white supremacists” opened fire on the crowd of protestors after they were asked to leave and were being escorted away from the encampment.
But doubts lingered as rumors about the shootings and the shooters spread rapidly through social media.
“I don’t want to perpetuate rumor,” said U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison after the shootings.
“I’d rather just try to get the facts out. That’s a better way to go. I know there’s a lot of speculation as to who these people were. And they well could have been, I’m not trying to say they weren’t white supremacists. But I just haven’t been able to piece together enough information to say with any real clarity.”
Congressman Ellison’s son was the subject of a viral photograph that shows a white cop pointing an assault rifle at his head during a protest for Jamar Clark.
Clark was shot to death by a Minneapolis cop while the 24-year-old unarmed black man was allegedly handcuffed and face down on the ground.
