Protesters Show Up After Police Snipers Take Out Armed Man Shooting Up Neighborhood, Woman Whose Apartment Was Shot Up With Her Kids Has A Few Choice Words For Them

Dozens of protesters gathered outside the apartment complex in south Minneapolis, where police shot and killed a black man two days earlier.

His name was Andrew Tekle Sundberg; his family said he was having a mental health crisis that led to an overnight standoff with officers, and activists wanted to know why police hadn’t been able to arrest him alive.

“We are here to respect life, demand justice and we demand the release of the bodycam footage,” Trahern Crews, a lead organizer for Black Lives Matter Minnesota, said through a megaphone.

Then a woman named Arabella Foss-Yarbrough drove up and started screaming.

She lived across the hall from Sundberg, she said, and was home with her 2- and 4-year-old sons Wednesday night when bullets pierced her front door. She said she and her sons quickly fell to the ground. Foss-Yarbrough called the police, who evacuated them from the building.

She said she was still traumatized. She said she thought she could have died.

“I have black children; I am a woman of color!” shouted Foss-Yarbrough, who is black, white, and native. “If I had lost my life, would you do this for me?”

“Yes, ma’am,” Crews said through his megaphone. Sundberg’s father, Mark Sundberg, walked over to comfort her. His facial expression was pained, compassionate.

“I’m so sorry,” he told Foss-Yarbrough. “Sorry.”

“This is not okay,” she said.

“No, it’s not, and I’m sorry this happened,” Sundberg said.

He and his wife had adopted Andrew from Ethiopia as a child. He was one of five other adopted and three biological children in the family.

When a protester told Foss-Yarbrough that Saturday’s rally was not the time or place for her outburst, she replied: “He tried to kill me in front of my children!”