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Law enforcement officials with Operation Safety Net confirmed that dozens were arrested following a demonstration protesting the police shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center.
Authorities said during an early morning press conference that bricks and cans were among the objects thrown at police officers during the third night of protests at the Brooklyn Center Police Department, after a member of their department shot and killed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop.
Col. Matt Langer, with the State Patrol, said upwards of 60 people were arrested in connection with the unrest Tuesday night. The behaviors we continue to see are unacceptable, and we are not going to tolerate them, Langer insisted. We encourage you to be peaceful and come and exercise your first amendment rights, it is not acceptable and will not be tolerated if you choose to come and do criminal activity and destroy property and throw objects and make it unsafe for people to come and exercise your
Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter will be charged with second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright. Washington County Attorney Pete Orput relayed the charges to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune Wednesday morning, three days after Wright was shot during a traffic stop. While Wright’s death occurred in Hennepin County, it was referred to nearby Washington County to avoid a conflict of interest in the.
The police officer who shot dead Black 20-year-old Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb after appearing to mistake her gun for her Taser was arrested Wednesday and will face manslaughter charges.
Daunte Wright shooting charges: Second-degree manslaughter
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Former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota police officer Kimberly Potter is charged with second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, Washington County Attorney Pete Orput confirmed Wednesday morning.
Charging decisions were passed on to the Washington County Attorney’s Office, an outside agency, to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.
However, Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott is calling for the governor to hand the case over to Attorney General Keith Ellison for prosecution. Currently, there is no mechanism for the Attorney General to just step in and prosecute.
John Stiles, a spokesperson for Attorney General Keith Ellison, told FOX 9 he has complete confidence in Washington County Attorney Pete Orput s review of the case.
House Rep. Cori Bush says white cop who shot dead 20-year-old Daunte Wright would ve known the difference between her Taser and gun if he wasn t a black boy after fellow squad members Rashida Tlaib and AOC call for police to be abolished
Cori Bush slammed claim more training would have prevented Sunday s fatal shooting of Daunte Wright
Bush, Democratic congresswoman from St. Louis, scoffed at claim that cop mistook her gun for a Taser Squad members AOC and Rashida Tlaib have also spoken out, saying police should be abolished
Cop Kimberly Potter is said to have confused her gun for a taser when she shot at Daunte Wright Sunday