Police fatally shoot 20-year-old Black man near Minneapolis, inflaming tensions during Derek Chauvin trial
Updated 6:47 AM;
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By Mara Klecker and Kim Hyatt, Minneapolis Star Tribune
MINNEAPOLIS A Brooklyn Center police officer in Brooklyn Center, northwest of Minneapolis, 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.
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The deep and profound problems with American policing got quite a workout over the weekend. As the trial of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd took a break until Monday, police in the adjoining suburb of Brooklyn Center pulled over a car driven by a 20-year-old Black man named Daunte Wright for what seems to have been a penny-ante traffic violation and, within minutes, shot him to death. From the
After the shooting, Brooklyn Center police said officers pulled over a vehicle for a traffic violation shortly before 2 p.m. in the 6300 block of Orchard Avenue. The driver, who had a warrant, got back into the vehicle as officers were trying to take him into custody. That s when an officer discharged a weapon, striking the driver, police said. The vehicle traveled several blocks before crashing into another vehicle. Officers and medical personnel performed lifesaving measures but the driver was pronounced dead at the scene, p