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Journalists covering protests in Brooklyn Center last week following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright say they have been assaulted, pepper-sprayed and detained by law enforcement officers despite showing their credentials.

Maxine Waters speaks in Brooklyn Center, draws ire of right-wing media The congresswoman visited protesters Saturday night. Author: The ongoing protest in Brooklyn Center over the death of Daunte Wright received a high-profile visitor this weekend: Rep. Maxine Waters. The longtime California congresswoman, frequently described as a firebrand, spoke to protesters outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department Saturday night, saying she came from Washington, D.C., because she "could not sleep" due...

The View From Here: Time to end the drug war The same logic that is ending our commitment in Afghanistan should be applied to another forever war at home. On Wednesday, President Biden announced he will end direct U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan. With 2,448 American dead and 20,000 wounded in 20 years of combat operations that have cost $2.2 trillion, we have not ended the fighting between the Taliban and other factions or created a stable democracy. It’s time to go. “We already ...

Demonstration continue for seventh straight night outside Brooklyn Center police department People have gathered outside the Brooklyn Center police department on night seven of demonstrations after Daunte Wright was shot and killed by a former officer. Author: Tyler Cashman (KARE 11), Emma Korynta WCNC Published: 6:05 PM EDT April 17, 2021 Updated: 12:29 AM EDT April 18, 2021 BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — No reports of violence as a demonstration o...

Minnesota police have promised not to detain and rough up reporters covering protests over the police shooting of Duante Wright, after reporters were detained, pepper-sprayed, and forced to lie face-down on Friday. Police clashed with protesters after an officer shot and killed a man on April 11, in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo: AFP / Kerem Yuce The Minnesota State Patrol also agreed to stop photographing journalists and their credentials, and said it would no longer limit th...

4 officers hospitalized after they were sprayed at protest April 18, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Four Sacramento police officers were hospitalized with injuries after they were sprayed with a liquid irritant during protests Saturday night, police told KCRA TV. The demonstrators had gathered at the state Capitol downtown to protest the police shooting deaths of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and Adam Toledo in Chicago. Protesters met at the Capitol Rose Ga...

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Officer charged in Daunte Wright killing. Portlandbusinesses and a church picked up the pieces Saturday morning between nights of unrest in the city following a number of policeshootings nationwide. Groups of around 100 people moved around the streets of Portland, either protesting or looking to cause damage on Friday night, leading police to declare a riot. The mayhem marked the third night in five days that police have declared a riot in the city in the wake of police shootings nationwide, in...

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In Minneapolis, the Minnesota Freedom Fighters try to keep the peace By STEPHEN GROVES and JOHN MINCHILLO The Associated Press,Updated April 17, 2021, 1 hour ago Email to a Friend Step Child, a member of the Freedom Fighters, stood among the demonstrators in front of the Brooklyn Central Police Station during curfew in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on April 15, 2021.KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — As protests intensified in the Minneapolis suburb where a police ...