23-year-old Dolal Idd was killed in a shootout with police.
Protesters took to the streets on Thursday after police shot 23-year-old Dolal Idd dead in the same neighborhood where George Floyd died in May.
“We are now angry, we are now frustrated because we said ‘no’ after George Floyd was killed, but it didn’t take long for another body to fall,” protester Jaylani Hussein told KSTP, a Minneapolis ABC subsidiary, Thursday night.
Idd’s death is the first caused by the Minneapolis police force since Floyd died on May 25, sparking protests across the country for police reform and racial equality.
Idd was killed in a shootout with Minneapolis police officers during a traffic stop Wednesday night. Police say Idd was a suspect in a crime.
Body cameras released to the public within 24 hours showed that police repeatedly ordered Idd to “stop your car.” Police cars were parked in Idd’s white car before the driver’s window shattered and police fired into the car, the video shows.
“When I watched the video that everyone is watching … it appears that the person in the vehicle fired their weapon at the vehicle first,” MPD chief Medaria Arradondo said Thursday. He also said witnesses confirmed that the suspect shot first.
Arradondo said MPD officers conducted a “probable cause” weapons investigation, which resulted in a traffic stop at a gas station. Arradondo said he did not know if there was an arrest warrant for Idd’s arrest.
Idd was pronounced dead on the spot. The woman he was in the car with and the officers on the scene were not injured.
A weapon was recovered on the spot, officials said.
Protesters are demanding more detail and more video than the 28 seconds of footage released. Others wonder if the police could have done more to de-escalate the situation.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is leading the investigation into the incident. Arradondo said he expects more video of the shooting to be released during the probe.
Arradondo said he met with Idd’s family members and allowed them to view the camera images of the body before they were made public.
The names of the agents involved in the incident have not yet been released.
When asked whether the officers were justified in firing into the vehicle, Arradondo said his officers are “trained to respond” when they “experience gunfire.”
Arradondo also said he wants to protect everyone’s right to demonstrate peacefully, but says the city “cannot allow destructive criminal behavior.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Thursday acknowledged the “raw emotion” Minneapolis is experiencing, saying that “the details of what happened last night do not nullify the tragedy of yesterday’s death.”
ABC News’ Will McDuffie contributed to this report.