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U.S. NEWSTuesday 1 December 2015

Officials charge 4 in Minneapolis protester shooting Court papers say
witness IDs man in
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced the charges against the four defendants about. parade shooting
Minneapolis Mayor Betsy
in the shooting of five people near the Minneapolis Police Department’s 4th Precinct on Nov. 23, Hodges said Monday the J. McCONNAUGHEY
encampment has be- Associated Press
during a press conference at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minn., come unsafe. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A wit-
But protesters have vowed ness’s statement and pho-
Monday, Nov. 30, 2015. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP) to stay at the precinct de- to identification led to the
spite the cold weather and arrest of a man accused
AMY FORLITI long encampment at a and federal investigations last week’s shooting that in a playground shootout
STEVE KARNOWSKI police precinct. are underway. left five black men with that wounded 17 people,
Associated Press Protesters have been at Protesters have erected injuries that weren’t life- court papers show.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Four the 4th Precinct since Ja- about two dozen tents and threatening. One of the in- Joseph “Moe” Allen, 32,
men were charged Mon- mar Clark, 24, was shot canopy shelters at the po- jured men, Wesley Martin, faces 17 counts of at-
day in last week’s shooting Nov. 15 during what au- lice station, and they have said protesters would stand tempted murder in the
of demonstrators protest- thorities said was a struggle barricaded the street with their ground. Nov. 22 gunfight at Bunny
ing the killing of a black with police. Clark died the lumber and pallets. During “They can have the street. Friend Playground after
man by Minneapolis po- next day. Some who said a snowy Monday morn- We can take the sidewalk,” a neighborhood parade.
lice, while the city’s mayor they saw the shooting al- ing, about seven camp- Martin said. “To be honest, He’s being held in lieu of
separately asked the pro- lege he was handcuffed, fires were burning to warm we’re not going nowhere.” $1.7 million bond on those
testers to end their weeks- which police dispute. State those who were milling Allen Lawrence Scarsella, charges, and without
23, was charged Monday bond on a Texas warrant
with five counts of assault accusing him of violating
with a dangerous weapon probation. Defense attor-
and one count of riot in last ney Kevin Boshea did not
week’s shooting. Three oth- immediately return a call
er men — Nathan Wayne and email Monday. Al-
Gustavsson, 21, Daniel len’s mother, Deborah Al-
Thomas Macey, 26, and len, told NOLA.com ‘ The
Joseph Martin Backman, Times-Picayune (http://bit.
27 — were also charged ly/21p5wfj) Sunday night
with riot. County Attorney that her son was in Texas
Mike Freeman said he filed the night of the gunfight.
the toughest charges pos- Calls to her home on Mon-
sible in what he called a day got repeated busy
racially motivated attack, signals. Police are still try-
saying the felonies carry ing to identify other people
tougher potential sentenc- involved in the shooting.
es than any kind of hate Allen’s arrest was based
crime-related charge.q on a witness who gave the
“name and nickname of
Flight attendant charged with attacking crew, marshals one of the many shooters
... in this mass shooting,”
TOM FOREMAN Jr. crews and attendants, In an affidavit, federal air on Nov. 23 and 24, 2015, and then identified Allen in
Associated Press and with assaulting, resist- marshal Joseph Fialka says was exceptionally unusu- a “six-pack photographic
An American Airlines flight ing or impeding an officer Snow’s fellow flight atten- al.” lineup” at the local police
attendant who described or employee of the United dants told him she was Fialka said that while Flight station, New Orleans police
herself as “crazy” and a States. Snow was sched- acting erratically. 704 was en route, one Detective Chad Cocker-
“train wreck” attacked uled to appear in court He said they had request- flight attendant told him ham said in a sworn state-
fellow crew members Monday, but the appear- ed that she not work the that Snow slapped her in ment. Allen “was observed
and U.S. marshals during a ance was canceled. flight, but American Air- the face while they were walking into Bunny Friend
flight from Charlotte, North American Airlines spokes- lines management didn’t in the aircraft’s middle Playground and firing a
Carolina, to Frankfurt, Ger- woman Katie Cody said remove her. galley. Around 45 min- semi-automatic handgun
many, last week, accord- the airline is cooperating “Before we even departed utes later, he said Snow into the crowd,” Cock-
ing to documents filed in with federal law enforce- Charlotte, Snow made sev- shoved him several times erham said. Cockerham
federal court. ment in an investigation eral unsolicited comments on his shoulder and arm as described hearing a “bar-
The complaint, filed and is working directly with to me that she was ‘crazy’ he was seated. She then rage of gunfire erupt” at
Wednesday in U.S. District employees. Asked about and a ‘train wreck,’” Fi- went to the back of the Bunny Friend Playground
Court in Charlotte, says Snow’s status with the air- alka said. “I have worked plane, where Fialka said as police headed there to
Joanne Snow is charged line, she declined to com- around Snow several times she grabbed the collar of break up an “unauthorized
with interference with flight ment. prior to this. Her behavior another air marshal.q party.”q