Protests erupted near Minneapolis after a black man was shot dead by police

Protests erupted near Minneapolis after a black man was shot dead by police

Protests erupted near Minneapolis after a black man was shot dead by police.Image By Reuters

Brooklyn Center (Minnesota) : Protests against the police when the police shot dead a boy rising after stopping his vehicle due to a violation of the road on Sunday grade 16 miles from where George Floyd was killed when he was arrested in Minneapolis in May last year.

As angry mobs filled hundreds outside the Brooklyn Police Department building on Sunday night, anti-riot police officers fired rubber bullets at the protesters and released clouds that irritated the chemicals.

A man killed by police has been identified by relatives and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as Daunte Wright, 20. Walz said in a statement that he was monitoring the riots in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis, as "our country mourns the death of another black man taken by law."

Anti-police protesters have already spent the last few days meeting in Minneapolis as the trial of Derek Chauvin, a former white police officer in the city, enters its third week in a court full of obstacles and soldiers from the National Guard.

Protests erupted near Minneapolis after a black man was shot dead by police

Protests erupted near Minneapolis after a black man was shot dead by police.A File Image 

Cauvin faces charges of murder and murder by kneeling on the neck of Floyd, a 46-year-old black man handcuffed, when he was arrested last May, the video of which sparked worldwide protests against police brutality.

Wright's mother, Katie Wright, told reporters at the scene that she had received a call from her son on Sunday afternoon telling him that police had dragged her by having air fans hanging from her rear-viewing mirror, which was illegal in Minnesota. He heard police told his son to get out of the car, he said.

"I heard a commotion, I heard the police say," Daunte, don't run, "he said with tears in his eyes.

In a statement, Brooklyn Center police said police dragged a man with the intent to disrupt traffic before 2 p.m., finding that he had a warrant for his arrest. When police tried to arrest him, he returned to the car. One police officer shot the man, who could not be reached for comment. The man hit several blocks before hitting another vehicle and died at the scene.

Police said both police cameras were recording at the time of the incident. The state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said it was investigating the shooting.

The Minnesota branch of the American Civil Liberties Union said another non-governmental organization should investigate, and demanded the immediate release of any videos of the shooting. The group said it was "extremely concerned about the police here using hanging objects as excuses to stop something, which police often do to target Black people." Near the scene of the shooting, protesters shouted angrily at the police line in riot gear with long sticks in front of them. Some protesters destroyed two police vehicles, pelting them with stones and jumping over them. Police fired rubber bullets, hit at least two people, at least one man and left bleeding in the head, a witness Reuters, before the crowds marched into the entrance of the police building.

Sunday's shooting was "horrible", said Brooklyn Mayor Mike Elliott.

"We urge the protesters to continue to be peaceful and that peaceful protesters are not coerced," he said in a statement. 

Reuters