Ibrahim Kamia of Minneapolis, with his daughter Yeleen, 3, drove a minivan full of wood from his backyard to donate for fires to warm Black Lives Matter protesters outside the 4th Precinct Nov. 19. He said he wanted his daughter to see the scene.
Activists have made demands very specific to the Clark case: the release of video tapes, for instance, or a federal investigation of the shooting. But the rhetoric at rallies and news conferences has also often shifted to broader themes, such as justice and systemic change.
At times, the demonstrations have had the feel of a movement.
So what's ahead for the demonstrators and other stakeholders?
MPR News reporter Peter Cox contributed to this report.
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Minneapolis NAACP president Nekima Levy-Pounds speaks to the media at the Black Lives Matter protest site outside the police department's 4th Precinct Nov. 30, 2015.
For Levy-Pounds, the future needs to include revolving loan programs for African-Americans, access to capital for black entrepreneurs, and mentoring black-owned businesses.
"We need to see a robust investment in the northside community so that the quality of life will be enhanced, and the disparities that we spend way too much admiring will be closed."
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Eighty-five-year-old Josie Robinson Johnson lives just 10 minutes from the 4th Police Precinct. The long-time civil rights activist says there is anger, frustration and concern about the future for African-Americans.
"Racism is reflected in laws, policies, programs," she said. "Supremacy helps build those laws, and maintains the position that people are in, and the sense of not being completely free."
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Felicia Perry and Nicque Mabrey took turns camping out at the entrance of the Fourth Precinct in North Minneapolis Nov. 16.
"You know, you just get tired of growing up in a place where the people that you're told as a child are supposed to be almost the guardians of your community, but then they turn into the terrorists of the community," Perry, a mother of two, said.
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