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The police killing in a Minneapolis suburb adds to tensions around the trial of Derek Chauvin. Protesters there defied a 7 p.m. curfew. Police officers fired tear gas and made arrests.
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Protesters gathered outside the Police Department in Brooklyn Center, Minn., for a second night, in violation of the city’s curfew. Officers fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.CreditCredit.Joshua Rashaad McFadden for The New York Times
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Protests lasted for hours in Brooklyn Center, Minn., where 20-year-old Black man Daunte Wright died after being shot by police Sunday. Image: Evan Frost/MPR News
Updated April 12, 2021 at 10:44 PM ET
The police officer said to have fatally shot Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man killed in what started as a traffic stop, has been identified as Kim Potter.
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in a statement on Monday evening described Potter as a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center, Minn., Police Department, who is now on administrative leave.
The department offered no other details about Potter s career, saying, Further personnel data are not public from the BCA under Minnesota law during an active investigation.