Minneapolis Police Shoot 20-Year-Old Black Man
Apr 12, 2021
Protests have followed the police shooting of a Black man in Minneapolis, in the United States. Al Jazeera reports that 20-year-old Duante Wright, died shortly after he had been shot, close to where unarmed George Floyd was killed by police last year. Floyd’s death had triggered months long protests against racism and police brutality.
Hundreds of people confronted police in riot gear on Sunday night, just hours after Wright was fatally shot in his car in the suburb of Brooklyn Centre. Police reacted by firing tear gas into the crowd of protesters. Al Jazeera reports that National Guard troops were deployed just before midnight.
Hundreds protested last night after a Black man in Minnesota was shot by a police officer and died following a traffic stop. Follow here for the latest.
POLICE fired tear gas at crowds gathered on Sunday night to protest against the fatal shooting of a young black man in the United States city of Minneapolis.
Protests broke out after Daunte Wright was shot after he was pulled over by police in the suburb of Brooklyn Center in a city already on edge and midway through the trial of the first of four police officers involved in George Floyd’s death last May, a killing that sparked Black Lives Matter protests round the world.
According to his mother, Katie Wright, Duante called her to say he had been stopped by police and heard officers telling him to end the phone call. Soon afterwards she received a call from Duante’s girlfriend saying he had been shot.
Police shooting of Daunte Wright puts spotlight on pretextual arrest laws Christopher Wilson
The killing of a 20-year-old Minnesota man during a traffic stop Sunday has drawn attention to so-called pretextual arrests, which allow police to pull vehicles over for minor traffic violations and then investigate unrelated crimes.
Daunte Wright was shot by a police officer Sunday afternoon in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center after officials say they pulled him over for an expired registration on his vehicle. When they approached the car, they saw he had something hanging from his rearview mirror, and after running his name they found an outstanding warrant. Body camera footage released Monday showed an officer shooting Wright as he tried to get back into his car.