Around midnight on the night before the start of the manslaughter trial of former police officer Kim Potter, Brooklyn Center city leaders found themselves at an impasse over their police department’s budget and how to fund the reforms they'd agreed to make nearly seven months previously.
Created: April 14, 2021 06:50 PM
Protesters clashed overnight with law enforcement outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department for a third night in a row. The unrest followed what started as a peaceful protest then a march to the FBI headquarters.
Tear gas, rubber bullets and flash-bang grenades poured into the streets of Brooklyn Center. Neighbors in the area say they re experiencing something they’ve never seen before.
Tear gas seeped into the apartment of Angel Martin, who lives right across the street from the Brooklyn Center Police Department.
“It s like kind of stressful for us because we still have to live here,” Martin said. “They don t understand cause we got to live over here, and here it is every night. Getting no sleep.”