Scarsella Guilty In Shooting Of Black Lives Matter Protesters

DRINKING A LONG TIME IN THE
AFTERNOON.
THANKS, BILL.
YOU BET.
LATE THIS AFTERNOON A JURY
CONVICTED A MAN FOR SHOOTING
FIVE BLACK LIVES MATTER
PROTESTERS AT A POLICE PRECINCT
LAST NOVEMBER.
THE JURY FOUND 24-YEAR-OLD
ALLEN SCARSELLA GUILTY ON 12
COUNTS INCLUDING FELONY FIRST
DEGREE ASSAULT AND RIOT
CHARGES.
JEFF WAGNER IS OUTSIDE THE
HENNEPIN COUNTY COURTHOUSE
WHERE THE VERDICT CAME IN A
COUPLE OF HOURS AGO.
HE JOINS US NOW WITH MORE.
Reporter: SINCE WE LAST SAW
YOU AT 5:00, THE HENNEPIN
COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING IT
WAS PLEASED WITH THE GUILTY
VERDICT ON ALL 12 COUNTS.
THEY SAID THEY TRIED TO CHARGE
HIM WITH THE MOST SERIOUS
POSSIBLE CHARGES THEY COULD AND
IT APPEARS THAT THE EVIDENCE IN
THIS TRIAL PLAYED A BIG FACTOR
IN THE JURY'S DECISION.
NOW BACK IN NOVEMBER 2015
SCARSELLA AND THREE FRIENDS
WENT TO A BLACK LIVES MATTER
PROTEST RELATED TO JAMAR
CLARK'S KILLING.
SCARSELLA FIRED HIS GUN EIGHT
TIMES HITTING FIVE PEOPLE.
HE CLAIMED IT WAS IN SELF-
DEFENSE BUT EVIDENCE IN THE
TRIAL INCLUDED A VIDEO THAT
SHOWED HIM ON HIS WAY TO AN
EARLIER PROTEST STATING HE WAS
GOING ON, QUOTE, A MISSION AND
WAS, QUOTE, LOCKED AND LOADED.
THERE WERE ALSO TEXT MESSAGES,
HE ADMITTED TO WRITING THEM,
STATING HIS PISTOL WAS DESIGNED
TO KILL BLACK PEOPLE.
ONE OF THE VICTIMS FEELS THE
EVIDENCE WAS CRUCIAL IN LANDING
THAT GUILTY VERDICT.
THE VIDEO, THE TEXT
MESSAGES, HIM TEXTING MY
OFFICER AND HOW HE'S SAYING HE
WANTS TO SHOOT BLACK PEOPLE AND
HE REALLY CAME DOWN THERE AND
SHOT US AND HE DID HIS JOB AS
HE WAS GOING THROUGH THE TEXT
MESSAGES.
HE WENT OUT THERE TO
PROVOKE.
SAYING RACIST SLURS AND
LURED US UP THE STREET AND
THAT'S WHEN HE FIRED THE SHOTS.
Reporter: SCARSELLA IS DUE
BACK IN COURT MARCH 10th AND
THE HENNEPIN COUNTY ATTORNEY'S
OFFICE SAYS THEY PLAN TO GO FOR

Scarsella Guilty In Shooting Of Black Lives Matter Protesters

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