Justice for Jamar 4th Precinct Occupation

Demonstrators occupied the Minneapolis Police Department's Fourth Precinct station on Plymouth Avenue North following the killing of Jamar Clark by Minneapolis police officers on November 15, 2015. The occupation drew Black Lives Matter organizers and community members who established a sustained protest encampment outside the precinct building.

Clark, a 24-year-old Black man, was shot by officers responding to a disturbance call in the North Side neighborhood, and his death intensified longstanding tensions between Minneapolis police and the city's Black community. Protesters projected the words "Justice for Jamar" onto the precinct's exterior wall and held signs reading "This could be your city next," connecting Clark's killing to a pattern of police violence nationwide. This set documents the early days of the occupation, covering the encampment, the crowds gathered outside the station, and the acts of public witness that defined the protest through its most visible phase.