Dozens gathered in north Minneapolis on Saturday to mark 10 years since the police killing of 24-year-old Jamar Clark.

Clark died on Nov. 16, 2015, a day after Minneapolis police shot him in the head outside a birthday party.

Ten years later, loved ones are still grappling with his death.

“It’s always, to me, is like yesterday,” said Clark’s mother Irma Burns. “The pain never goes away.”

Clark’s family — including his grandmother, aunts, uncles, siblings and numerous small nieces and nephews — joined activists and other community members at the University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach Engagement Center on Plymouth Avenue, just blocks from where the shooting took place.

They remembered Clark as he lived. Burns said her son once literally gave the shoes off his feet to someon

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