Crowds vandalised buildings and stole from businesses in Minneapolis’ Uptown neighbourhood after officials said a man wanted for illegally possessing a gun was fatally shot by authorities who were part of a task force trying to arrest him that included U.S. Marshals.
Following the Thursday afternoon shooting, a small crowd gathered in the neighbourhood where the man was shot, shouting expletives at police.
Later in the night, people vandalised “numerous” buildings and looted some, Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder said in a email to reporters early Friday.
A dumpster was burned and windows were smashed. Arrest totals weren’t expected to be available until later Friday.
Little is known about Thursday’s shooting. The U.S. Marshals Service said a task force was trying to arrest the man on a state warrant for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The man, who was in a parked car, didn’’t comply with law enforcement and “produced a handgun resulting in task force members firing upon the subject,” the U.S. Marshals said in a statement. Task force members attempted life-saving measures, but he died at the scene, they said.