Protest erupts again over man killed by Minnesota deputies
June 6, 2021 GMT
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Protesters faced off with officers in Minneapolis early Saturday over the shooting death of a Black man by members of a U.S. Marshals task force.
Photos from the scene following a vigil for Winston Boogie Smith Jr., 32, showed dumpster fires in the street and a line of officers standing guard. It was the second night of protests in response to the fatal shooting Thursday in Minneapolis’ Uptown neighborhood.
Police said 27 people were arrested in the protest, with 26 accused of rioting and one facing a weapons charge. No injuries were reported. Some businesses sustained damage, police said.
Decades back in 1982, Pitzen was found guilty on four counts of second-degree sexual assault. He allegedly broke into the bedrooms of multiple female strangers while they were asleep. The list of victims included a teenager and three women.
Previously, he was convicted of sex registry violations between the years of 2004 and 2016. In 2015, he had escaped from a Wautoma transitional facility, and was arrested in Mesquite, Nevada. That escape had led him to be thrown behind the bars for a year. He was also convicted of disorderly conduct, battery, burglary, and drug offenses.
In a separate incident, Frank Anthony Ruggirello, a 43-year-old resident of Clinton, Mich., was taken into custody for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The victim staying at MGM told a lifeguard at the swimming pool that she was sexually assaulted by Ruggirello. When a team of Metro police officers responded, and Ruggirello was arrested, he claimed that the se
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