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A funeral service was held Saturday at Shiloh Temple in Minneapolis for Winston Smith, the man killed in a law enforcement shooting in Uptown.

Several activists and lawyers spoke at an emotional news conference Thursday to continue raising questions about the lack of transparency in the case, a week after officials said Smith fired from his car as a task force led by the U.S. Marshals Service tried to arrest him on a warrant from Ramsey County on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a gun.

Smith was killed by two undercover deputies who the BCA says Smith shot at first.

A woman in Winston Smith's car when a federal task force shot and killed him last week never saw Smith with a gun, her attorneys said Thursday — disputing authorities' claim that he shot first from the vehicle."She never saw a gun on Winston Smith, and she never saw a gun inside the vehicle at any time," said lawyer Racey Rodne.He made a brief statement on the unnamed passenger's behalf ...

Activists demanded that law enforcement be more transparent and be held to account.