Looting and Rioting in Minneapolis After Fatal Police Shooting
On 6/4/21 at 5:03 AM EDT
Looting and rioting broke out in Minneapolis on Thursday night after police fatally shot a man wanted on a gun possession charge.
The fatal shooting from law enforcement officers came just over a year after George Floyd died in police custody, a death that sparked protests across the U.S. in opposition to racial violence, with the effects still felt in Minneapolis.
In April, a jury in Minneapolis convicted former officer Derek Chauvin of Floyd s murder, while a trial for the other officers at the scene of the May 2020 incident is pending. Chauvin is due to be sentenced on June 25, but the defense is pushing for a new trial.
There is no body camera or squad car footage of the deadly law enforcement shooting of a man at a Minneapolis parking garage according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Two sheriff s deputies fatally shot man during arrest attempt, prompting new wave of unrest in Minneapolis Christine Fernando, USA TODAY
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Two sheriff s deputies fatally shot a man Thursday afternoon during an arrest attempt in Minneapolis, prompting protests and public outcry to release footage of the shooting.
While authorities did not immediately release the man s name, family and friends identified him as Winston Boogie Smith, a 32-year-old father of three.
The U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement sent to USA TODAY that its task force was trying to arrest the man on a state warrant for illegal possession of a firearm. The man, who was parked in a car, failed to comply with officers’ commands and produced a handgun resulting in task force members firing upon the subject, according to the statement.
Two Minnesota sheriff s deputies who were on a US Marshals task force shot and killed felon Winston Boogie Smith, 32, while trying to serve an arrest warrant for illegally carrying a firearm.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â Crowds vandalized buildings and stole from businesses in Minneapolisâ Uptown neighborhood after law enforcement officers on a U.S. Marshals Service task force fatally shot a man they were trying to arrest for illegally possessing a gun, authorities said Friday.
Authorities did not immediately release the name of the man killed in the shooting Thursday afternoon, but a woman who was in a longtime relationship with him identified him as Winston Boogie Smith Jr., a 32-year-old father of three.
The woman, Shelly Hopkins, said Smith, who was Black, had been harassed by police since he was in high school. She feared he had been killed when she heard about the shooting, then saw his vehicle on the news. While she was at the scene she got a call from the medical examiner s office confirming his death.