The resignation of officer Kim Potter, a veteran with 26 years of service, “came amid a chaotic 24 hours” in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis during which police chief Tim Gannon also resigned and “the City Council fired the city manager”, transferring “control of the police department to the mayor”, The Washington Post reports.
Outside Brooklyn Center Police Department, “law enforcement moved in with heavy force against hundreds of protesters” who gathered at the police station for a third night to protest at the killing, The Minneapolis Star Tribune says.
“As night fell, an estimated 800 to 1,000 protesters remained outside the station”, the paper continues, with police declaring the gathering unlawful, “deploying flash-bang grenades” to disperse the demonstrators.
A former medical examiner from Maryland called by the defense said George Floyd died from cardiac arrhythmia, not asphyxia as prosecutors contend in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
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Ex-cop to be charged with manslaughter in Black man’s death at Minnesota traffic stop
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Katie Wright, center, mother of Daunte Wright, arrives Tuesday to speak during a news conference in Minneapolis. Daunte Wright, 20, was shot and killed by police Sunday after a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minn. (John Minchillo, Associated Press)
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BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. A Minnesota prosecutor said Wednesday that he will charge a white former suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, igniting days of unrest and clashes between protesters and police.