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More than 40 arrested overnight amid unrest over Minnesota man shot by police
Washington County Attorney Pete Orput promised a thorough yet expedited review of the case with the hope that the office can have criminal charges drafted Tuesday or Wednesday.
By Liz Navratil, Stephen Montemayor and Andy MannixStar Tribune
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A demonstrator heckles authorities who advanced into a gas station after issuing orders for crowds to disperse during a protest against the police shooting of Daunte Wright, late Monday, April 12, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. AP Photo/John Minchillo
The traffic stop that would end Daunte Wright’s life played out on a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer’s body camera. Officers appeared to try to handcuff him; then he slipped back into the driver’s seat.
“It is my belief that the officer had the intention to deploy their Taser but instead shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet,” Gannon said at a tense press conference over the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright.
By Bill Galluccio
Protesters gathered in cities across the country following the shooting death
of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Some of the protests turned violent after dark as police clashed with rioters in the streets.
Authorities arrested about 40 people in Minnesota after their protest was declared unlawful for violating a 7 p.m. curfew. Hundreds of people amassed outside of the Brooklyn Center Police Department and demanded justice for Wright, who was killed after officer
Kimberly A. Potter fired her service weapon, thinking it was a Taser.
People in the crowd chanted Daunte Wright and Hands up! Don t shoot! as others pelted police officers with various projectiles. The officers used tear gas and flash bangs as they tried to get the crowd to disperse.