WASHINGTON. The mayor of Brooklyn Center, north of Minneapolis, imposed a curfew following the killing of 20-year-old African-American Daunte Wright by police and the protests that followed, with clashes between hundreds of protesters and officers. The latter used tear gas to disperse the protest. While Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott asked people via Twitter “to stay home, safe,” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said he was “monitoring the situation closely” and praying for Wright’s family. .
Members of the Minnesota National Guard, already lined up for Derek Chauvin’s murder trial for George Floyd’s death, have been sent to Brooklyn Center. Here all school buildings have been closed, as reported by local media. According to the reconstruction provided by the Brooklyn Center Police Department, officers arrested a man for traffic violation and found that he had a pending arrest warrant. The man reentered the vehicle while officers were trying to arrest him, a statement read. The victim’s mother, Katie, said her son phoned her during the detention to ask for insurance details, but then heard a rustle and the communication was cut off.
The young man’s death sparked protests in Brooklyn Center, which lasted until the early hours of Monday. They arrive as Minneapolis is already on high alert for the ongoing trial of the first of four police officers involved in George Floyd’s death, Derek Chauvin. Brooklyn Center is a town of about 30,000 inhabitants located northwest of Minneapolis. John Harrington, commissioner of the Minnesota Public Security Department, said in a press conference in the middle of the night that some protesters went to the Brooklyn Center Police Department headquarters after the shooting and threw rocks and other objects at. The agents. The protests were dispersed around 1.15 am, he continued, adding that about twenty shops were damaged in the Shingle Creek shopping center. Harrington also specified that the National Guard has been activated.
The protest was also attended by Wright’s relatives and friends, who gathered to cry and comfort each other as other demonstrators jumped into police cars and collided with officers. At the march, in which the demonstrators walked with their hands up, there were also flags of the “Black Lives Matter” movement. On one street ‘Justice for Daunte Wright’ was written in colored chalk. On Sunday local evening, police threw tear gas on the crowd that had gathered in front of its headquarters.