MORE than 1,000 people marched in Minneapolis on Sunday to demand justice for Dolal Idd, a black man killed after his car was stopped by officers on Wednesday.

Mr Idd, a Somali-American, was the first person to be killed by police in the city since the murder in May of George Floyd, which sparked huge protests across the United States and beyond over racist police killings.

Police say that Mr Idd was wanted in a weapons investigation and that he fired on officers first.

Marcher AJ Awed said: “I’m encouraged to see that there’s such a huge turnout in solidarity for the brother and his family in the middle of winter. That shows there’s actually passion for the youth to engage this indefinitely until there is some real change.

“But at the same time, I’m disappointed because we shouldn’t be here, after the murder of George Floyd and countless others.”

Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Minnesota chapter, said that body camera footage released by Minneapolis police was inconclusive and had been edited. The chapter had helped organise the protest.

Elsewhere, families of two men shot by white supremacist Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during clashes between Black Lives Matter (BLM) and far-right protesters on August 25 have sued the city and Kenosha County.

Gaige Grosskreutz, who was seriously wounded, and the parents of Anthony Huber, who was killed, have each filed $10 million (£7.3m) claim notices saying that local authorities’ negligence contributed to the attacks.

Rittenhouse, 17, who killed two protesters – Mr Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum – with an assault rifle during the clashes, remains free on bail. His actions were publicly defended by President Donald Trump.

The march shows that the BLM movement which swept the United States in the last year of Mr Trump’s presidency will continue into the new administration. President-elect Joe Biden is due to take office on January 20, though Mr Trump continues to allege fraud. 

In a recording released at the weekend by the Washington Post, the president is heard calling on top Georgian election official Brad Raffensperger to “find” him 11,780 votes to overturn Mr Biden’s win. Democratic Senator Tim Kaine slammed it as an “attempt to overthrow the government of the United States.”