MINNEAPOLIS – The man who shot five Black Lives Matter protesters in 2015 has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, reports CBS Minnesota.
Allen Scarsella, 25, and some friends got into an argument with some protesters who were demonstrating outside Minneapolis' 4th Precinct police station after the shooting death of Jamar Clark by one of their officers.
He was convicted in February of a dozen felony counts of assault and riot.
Scarsella, who has been in county jail for nearly 18 months, addressed Judge Hilary Lindell Caligiuri and asked for probation.
"The incident touched so many lives and everybody who was involved is now worse off for it.".
One of the shooting victims, Cameron Clark, who is the cousin of the late Jamar Clark, said he is still dealing with physical and emotional pain from the shooting.
"All of that was lies and he was just trying to make the judge have some sympathy for him," he Clark. »