April 20, 2021
CWN Editor s Note: “Those traveling to and from religious services are also exempt from the curfew, an exception clarified after the Minnesota Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a statement condemning officials for preventing prayer gatherings on the first night of Ramadan,” the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
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Minnesota students walkout of classrooms to protest racial injustice They’re killing us, they’re killing the young people, they’re killing the future of this country.
Minnesota walked out of class on Monday in a state-wide protest against racial injustice.
The event was organized by Minnesota Teen Activists, and students from at least 118 high schools reportedly participated in the walkout. According to the
New York Times, the students demanded school leaders end their “silence over racial injustice.”
The coordinated action was in response to the police killings of
George Floyd and
Daunte Wright, a 20-year old Black man who was fatally shot last week in Brooklyn Center, Minn.
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With some waiting for the verdict in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial and others grieving the loss of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, the Instagram-organized protest brought out students from 118 Minnesota schools protest.
A group called Minnesota Teen Activists was created in response to racism in schools and the police killing of George Floyd. Its founder Gabby Hou, a sophomore at Champlin Park High School in Brooklyn Park, lead a chant around the US Bank Stadium, The New York Times reported.
At 1:47 p.m., the exact time Daunte Wright was shot eight days before, the teenaged protesters sat on the ground for a moment of silence that lasted for three minutes.
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Earlier this month, 20-year-old Daunte Wright was shot by now ex-police officer Kim Potter in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. In the nights following his murder (which happened while a trial was underway for another onetime Minnesota police officer, Derek Chauvin, who murdered George Floyd), protestors rallied outside the city s police department demanding justice for the late father. Minnesota National Guard members and State Patrol troopers were called to the scene where they fired tear gas, rubber bullets, and other projectiles into the crowd. Arrests were also made some nights over 100 protestors were taken into custody.
Potter, who had been a member of the Brooklyn Center Police Department for 26 years, doesn t live in that city, however: Her home is located about 15 minutes away in Champlin, Minnesota, where it received quite the security upgrade last Tuesday.