The night after Ringgenberg and Schwarze shot him, Clark died at the Hennepin County Medical Center after being taken off life support.

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced that cases concerning officer-involved shootings would no longer be put before grand juries, but instead his office would make the decision to file criminal charges.

Clark had endured a difficult childhood and had a criminal record, but was making attempts to turn his life around, according to friends and family.

[5] Clark had previous encounters with law enforcement, beginning in 2010 when he received a felony conviction for first-degree aggravated robbery.

[7] Clark faced a second conviction for terroristic threats[6] after he threatened to burn down the apartment of an ex-girlfriend in March 2015, following a bitter breakup.

[5] Potter wrote that Clark's ex-girlfriend described him as "a nurturing, loving man who was drawn to her four children, giving them advice and helping them sell candy for school", but that she also said that their relationship soured in recent times, resulting in their breakup.

[5] Jamar Clark was attending the birthday party of Nekelia Sharp, who was hosting the event at her apartment on the 1600 block of Plymouth Avenue North in Minneapolis.

[11] An autopsy report, released on November 17, by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner concluded that Clark died from a gunshot wound to the head.

[1] The President of the Minneapolis Police Union Bob Kroll said that Clark was actively resisting arrest and tried to take the weapon of one of the officers, and that he was not handcuffed at the moment of the shooting.

They "concluded the use of deadly force in the line of duty was necessary to protect an officer from apparent death or great bodily harm."

Teto Wilson, who visited a nearby club, said he saw Clark "perfectly still, laying [sic] on the ground" when he was shot.

[17] The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) issued a statement condemning the shooting and demanded an independent investigation.

[8] Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze, who had been with the department for 13 months, both were subsequently placed on paid administrative leave while the investigation was conducted.

[19] Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges stated that she contacted the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and the US Attorney for Minnesota in order to an outside investigation in the "interest of transparency and community confidence.

[31][32][33][34][35][36] Days before the shooting, the suspects had released a video of them using racial slurs while preparing to bring their weapons to a protest that night.

The dismissal motion also indicates that there is video evidence saying that one of the alleged gunmen raised their hands in surrender before leaving and being assaulted afterwards.

The Mall sought to block the 2015 demonstrations, resulting in three of the protest's organizers being legally barred from entering the space.

[47] Another protest was conducted on January 18, 2016 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), with demonstrators against the deaths of Clark and Marcus Golden (a man who Saint Paul police had killed a year prior) blocking the Lake Street-Marshall Bridge for a short time.

[48] During events of the 2020–2021 Minneapolis–Saint Paul racial unrest, Clark's name was featured in protests alongside other Black men who were killed by police.

[50] In February 2016, per the requests of local officials, the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services office announced that they would be conducting a review of the way the city handled the November protests.