23-year-old Dolal Idd was killed in a shootout with police.
Protesters took to the streets on Thursday after police shot dead 23-year-old Dolal Idd in the same neighborhood where George Floyd died in May.
“We are currently angry, we are currently frustrated because we said ‘no’ after George Floyd was killed, but it did not take long before another body fell,” protester Jaylani Hussein told KSTP on Thursday night. subsidiary of Minneapolis, said.
Idd’s death is the first in the hands of Minneapolis police since Floyd’s death on May 25, sparking protests across the country for police reform and racial equality.
Idd was killed in a shootout Wednesday night with police officers in Minneapolis during a stop. Police say Idd was a suspect in a crime.
On the camera, which was unveiled to the public within 24 hours, police Idd was repeatedly ordered to ‘stop your car’. Policemen boxed into Idd’s white car before the driver’s window was broken and police shot into the car, the video shows.
“When I watched the video that everyone was seeing … it appears that the person inside the vehicle first fired his weapon at the vehicle,” MPD chief Medaria Arradondo said on Thursday. He also said witnesses confirmed that the suspect shot first.
Arradondo said MPD officials did a ‘probable cause’ of a weapons investigation, which led to traffic jams at a petrol station. Arradondo said he did not know if there was a warrant for Idd’s arrest.
Idd was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman with whom he was in the car and the officers at the scene were not injured.
A weapon was recovered at the scene, officials said.
Protesters demand more details and more video than the 28 seconds of footage released. Others ask if the police could do more to aggravate the situation.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is leading the investigation into the incident. Arradondo said he expects more videos of the shooting to be released during the investigation.
Arradondo said he met with Idd’s family members and allowed them to see the body footage before it was released.
The names of the officers involved in the incident have not yet been released.
Asked if officers were justified in shooting into the vehicle, Arradondo said his officers were “trained to respond” when they “experienced gunfire”.
Arradondo also said he wanted to protect everyone’s right to protest peacefully, but said the city “could not allow destructive criminal behavior.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Thursday acknowledged the “raw emotion” Minneapolis is experiencing and said that “the details of what happened last night do not ignore the tragedy of yesterday’s death.”
ABC News’ Will McDuffie contributed to this report.