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The night featured two vigils: One, held in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, heard speeches from Black Portlanders on their frustration and despair in the face of yet another Black life lost to police violence. The other began in Laurelhurst Park with quiet candle lighting and ended with Portland police declaring a riot after attendees shattered windows of the Penumbra Kelly Building on East Burnside.
The demonstration signaled the start of Portland s fair-weather protest season, echoing the rage, fear, and frustrations on display during 2020 s protests against police brutality. Last year s largest protests began in late May, after Minneapolis officers killed another Black man, George Floyd. Wright s death in the suburb of Brooklyn Center took place just 10 miles from where Derek Chauvin, an ex-officer charged with Floyd s death, is now facing trial.
Police clashed with protesters for a second night in Brooklyn Center, Minn., as outrage spread across the U.S. over Wright s death at the hands of an officer who meant to use her Taser, officials say.
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Protests spread across the country Monday night after police officials in Brooklyn Center, Minn., said they believed that the officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright had intended to use her Taser but accidentally fired her handgun instead.
Even as a cold drizzle fell in Minnesota, hundreds turned out for a memorial protest at the police department in Brooklyn Center, a few miles from the scene of Wright s death, despite a 7 p.m. curfew that had been called across much of the Twin Cities area.
Demonstrators were met with lines of police officers in riot gear and nightsticks. Police declared an unlawful assembly at nightfall, eventually turning to flash-bang grenades, tear gas and foam rounds to clear the crowd. MPR News also reported damage and looting at a strip mall across the street from the police station. About 40 people were arrested, authorities said, many of whom were cited with misdemeanor curfew violations.
Several protest events unfolded in Portland on Monday night in opposition to police killings and the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man shot
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