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A Minneapolis mother of two was seen on video confronting protesters who had gathered outside an apartment building where a black man, Andrew “Tackle” Sundberg, was shot and killed by police last Thursday.
“This is not a George Floyd situation. George Floyd was unarmed. This is wrong,” the mother, identified as Arabella Foss-Yarbrough, was seen on video shouting at a group of protesters on Saturday.
Foss-Yarbrough was Sundberg’s neighbor and said he shot up her apartment Wednesday night while she was cooking for her 2- and 4-year-old sons, Fox 9 reported. She said the bullets tore through her apartment and nearly left her family dead or injured.
As protesters and activists gathered Saturday afternoon outside the apartment building to demand justice for Sundberg, Foss-Yarbrough pulled up in her car and confronted the protesters that she and her children had been traumatized by the 20-year-old before he be shot and killed. Sundberg’s family said he was having a “mental health crisis” at the time of his death.
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Photo of mother Arabella Foss-Yarbrough confronting protesters following the fatal police shooting of Andrew “Tackle” Sundberg. (Fox 9) (FOX 9)
“My kids have to deal with this and they probably have a mental illness now because they almost lost their lives. There are bullet holes in my kitchen because he was sitting in the fucking hallway watching me move,” she said as she faced the protesters. “He tried to kill me in front of my children.
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Foss-Yarbrough called police at the time of Wednesday’s shooting, which helped the family escape. As police responded to evacuate the building, “officers began firing,” according to the search warrant. The incident led to a six-hour standoff between police and Sundberg, which ended when two snipers from Minneapolis shot the 20-year-old dead.
“I have black children; I’m a woman of color!” Foss-Yarbrough, who is black, white and native-born according to the star Tribune, shouted at the demonstrators. “If I was going to lose my life, would you do this for me?”
“Yes ma’am,” Black Lives Matter Minnesota lead organizer Trahern Crews responded to Foss-Yarbrough during the demonstration.
Sundberg’s father, Mark Sundberg, also addressed the mother of two and said, “I’m so sorry,” according to the Star Tribune.
“That’s not right,” she replied.
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Protesters and activists are demanding the release of body camera footage of Sundberg’s shooting, as well as why police were unable to capture him while he was still alive. Civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Jeff Storms further argued that Sundberg’s parents were “severely limited” in their communication with their son.
Police said more than 50 officers were involved in the collision and are reviewing hundreds of hours of audio and video of the incident. Body camera footage is expected to be released to the family early this week, the Star Tribune reported.
Photo of mother Arabella Foss-Yarbrough confronting protesters following the fatal police shooting of Andrew “Tackle” Sundberg. (Fox 9) (Fox 9)
It’s still unclear what prompted the two snipers to shoot Sundberg, with the search warrant saying, “At some point during the standoff, the two snipers shot the male subject.”
“My heart goes out to this woman (Yarbrough). She went through a very traumatic event with those bullets going through her house,” Mark Sundberg told Fox 9. Cindy and Mark Sundberg adopted their son from Ethiopia when he was four years old.
A GoFundMe page was set up for Foss-Yarbrough after she lost her job following the standoff with police, according to the page. The GoFundMe page added that Sundberg was “harassed [Foss-Yarbrough] and haunted her for months.”
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Another GoFundMe was also set up to help cover Sundberg’s funeral expenses, “food and help for the youngest siblings in the family.”
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