A Minneapolis mom could be seen on video confronting protesters gathered outside the home of a man who was fatally shot by police.
The mother, Arabella Foss-Yarbrough, called police last Wednesday night after her neighborThe gunman was eventually shot dead Thursday morning by two Minneapolis police snipers.“This is not a George Floyd situation. George Floyd was unarmed. This is not okay,” Foss-Yarbrough was seen yelling at a group of protesters on Saturday. “He tried to kill me in front of my kids.”
Arabella Foss-Yarbrough told protesters Andrew “Tekle” Sundberg tried to kill her in front of her kids.Regardless of the circumstances of the shooting, activists gathered outside the building on Saturday to demand justice for Sundberg. “My kids have to deal with this and probably have a mental illness now because they almost lost their lives,” she said. “There’s bullet holes in my kitchen because he sat in the f–king hallway watching me move. He tried to kill me in front of my kids.”
The department said that there were hundreds of hours of footage from more than 50 officers who responded to the scene.Sundberg’s family said he was suffering a mental crisis when he fired shots into Foss-Yarbrough’s apartment.The 20-year-old shooter was adopted from Ethiopia and had many siblings, according toSundberg’s parents were outside the building when Foss-Yarbrough confronted the protestors. They said that they empathized with their neighbor.