Minneapolis: A white man accused of shooting five Black Lives Matter protesters in Minneapolis apparently had racist views and identified with the anti-government "sovereign citizen" movement, according to criminal complaints filed on Monday, charging him in the shooting, and three others with related crimes. Allen Scarsella, 23, fired all eight shots with a .45-calibre handgun in the incident on Monday last week, but his companions were also armed when they went to the demonstration, intending to spark a confrontation, the documents said. On the night of the shooting, they said, Mr Scarsella confessed to the...
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