Looting and Rioting in Minneapolis After Fatal Police Shooting
On 6/4/21 at 5:03 AM EDT
Looting and rioting broke out in Minneapolis on Thursday night after police fatally shot a man wanted on a gun possession charge.
The fatal shooting from law enforcement officers came just over a year after George Floyd died in police custody, a death that sparked protests across the U.S. in opposition to racial violence, with the effects still felt in Minneapolis.
In April, a jury in Minneapolis convicted former officer Derek Chauvin of Floyd s murder, while a trial for the other officers at the scene of the May 2020 incident is pending. Chauvin is due to be sentenced on June 25, but the defense is pushing for a new trial.
Two Minnesota sheriff s deputies who were on a US Marshals task force shot and killed felon Winston Boogie Smith, 32, while trying to serve an arrest warrant for illegally carrying a firearm.