Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets as angry protests erupted in a Minneapolis suburb after a 20-year-old Black man was shot dead during a traffic stop.
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Here we go again. As tensions run high in the Twin Cities during the Derek Chauvin trial over George Floyd’s death, a new police shooting in the suburbs threatens to start a new sequence of violent protest. After police shot a young black man during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, hundreds gathered to protest a protest which turned into a riot, looting, and destruction:
A Brooklyn Center police officer fatally shot a man during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon, inflaming already raw tensions between police and community members in the midst of the Derek Chauvin trial.
Relatives of Daunte Wright, 20, who is Black, told a tense crowd gathered at the scene in the northern Minneapolis suburb Sunday afternoon that Wright drove for a short distance after he was shot, crashed his car, and died at the scene.
The police chief in a Minneapolis suburb where a Black man was fatally shot during a traffic stop says he believes the officer who fired intended to use a.