Crowds of mourners and protesters gathered in a Minnesota city where the family of a man say he was shot by police before getting back into his car and driving away, then crashing.
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Demonstrations erupted in a Minneapolis suburb on Sunday night after a police officer fatally shot a man during a traffic stop. Crowds of mourners gathered at the site of the shooting, and relatives identified the victim as Daunte Wright, an African American resident of the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn City. Police did not identify the driver and said the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office will release the name once the family was notified. Chief Tim Gannon of the Brooklyn City Police Department said officers pulled the man over for a traffic violation and attempted to detain him when they learned of a warrant out for the man’s arrest. However, the man reentered his car, at which point an officer shot him. The car rolled for several blocks until it hit another vehicle, and medical workers pronounced him dead at the scene. One police officer was injured in the incident, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. Demonstrators later clashed with police outside the Broo