Police Shoot Another Black Man In US. Hundreds of people were seen outside the police station in Brooklyn Center, northwest of Minneapolis, with police later firing teargas and flash bangs to disperse the crowd.
“We want to make sure everyone is safe,” the mayor tweeted. “Please be safe and please go home.”
The mother of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, told a crowd earlier Sunday evening that he called her to say he had been apprehended by police, local media reported.
Katie Wright disclosed that she heard officers telling her son to put down his phone shortly, one of the officers ended the call. Soon after, her son’s girlfriend told her he had been shot.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension confirmed to AFP it was “investigating an officer-involved shooting incident” in Brooklyn Center but declined to identify the victim.
According to a statement from the Brooklyn Center Police Department, officers pulled over a driver for a traffic violation. When they discovered he had an outstanding warrant, they tried to take him into custody.
He got back into his car, and instantly, one of the officers fired their weapon, striking the driver, who died instantly at the scene.
A female passenger in the car suffered “non-life-threatening injuries” and was transported to a local hospital, said the statement, which did not identify the woman.
Photos from the protest showed men stomping on the windshield of a police cruiser.
After about an hour, the police presence eased, and the crowd lit candles and wrote messages such as “Justice for Daunte Wright” in chalk on the street.
Speaking at a press conference, John Harrington, the state’s commissioner of public safety, reported “rocks and other objects thrown at the police department.”
He added that officers were sent to the scene and the crowd had mostly dispersed.
About 20 businesses were looted at a local mall, he said.
Harrington said more National Guard troops would be moved into the area on Monday, to deal with potential unrest.
Floyd’s killing sparked months of protests in the United States against racism and police brutality and attracted international outrage.
Mayor Elliott called the shooting “tragic”, while Minnesota governor Tim Walz said the state “mourns another life of a Black man taken by law enforcement.”