Minneapolis buildings vandalized, police say, after authorities shoot and kill suspect
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Some buildings in Minneapolis were vandalized and looted late Thursday and early Friday, police said, amid protests over authorities’ fatal shooting of a suspect during an arrest attempt.
While trying to arrest a person wanted on a felony warrant in a parked car in Minneapolis on Thursday afternoon, US Marshals task force members shot the suspect after the person “produced a handgun” and “failed to comply with officers’ commands,” the US Marshals Service said in a prepared statement.
That person died at the scene, according to the statement, obtained by CNN affiliate WCCO. A second person, a female who also was in the car, sustained minor injuries from glass debris, the service said.
Protesters are blocking the intersection of Hennepin Avenue and Lake Street in Minneapolis' Uptown neighborhood, just a block away from where a man was shot and killed by law enforcement the day before.