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Police and protesters faced off again in Brooklyn Center after nightfall, with hundreds of protesters gathered in the city s heavily guarded police headquarters, now ringed by concrete barriers and a tall metal fence, and where police in riot gear and National Guard soldiers stood watch. “Murderapolis” was scrawled with black spray paint on a concrete barrier.
“Whose street? Our street!” the crowd chanted under a light snowfall.
About 90 minutes before the curfew deadline, state police announced over a loudspeaker that the gathering had been declared unlawful and ordered the crowds to disperse. That quickly set off confrontations, with protesters launching fireworks toward the station and throwing objects at police, who launched flashbangs and gas grenades, and then marched in a line to force back the crowd.
Daunte Wright: Kim Potter to be charged with manslaughter in Minnesota
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Officer accidentally shot, killed driver during traffic stop: Police chief
Chief calls police officer’s killing of Black man ‘accidental’
Replay Video UP NEXT A police officer who shot and killed a driver during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Sunday afternoon meant to deploy her Taser instead of her gun, authorities said. At a press conference Monday, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said he believes the female officer identified by authorities as Kim Potter intended to deploy her stun gun when she accidentally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright. A preliminary report issued by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner on Monday evening said that Wright s death was a homicide, as he died from a gunshot wound to the chest.
First Thing: Fatal police shooting in Minneapolis suburb accidental, authorities say Molly Blackall
Good morning.
Police who shot and killed a 20-year-old black man on Sunday afternoon during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb did so accidentally, law enforcement said last night.
Authorities released graphic body-camera footage they say proves the officer attempted to use a Taser on Daunte Wright, rather than a handgun. The officer, Kim Potter, was a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center police department.
Protests over Wright’s death entered their second night last night, with law enforcement agencies deploying teargas, flash-bangs and other non-lethal force in the suburb of Brooklyn Center as they attempted to disperse demonstrators. The Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, issued a 7pm curfew, but many defied it.
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