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Protests erupted against police in Minneapolis in the United States when an officer fatally shot a young black man after stopping his vehicle for a traffic violation on Sunday, about16km from where George Floyd was killed during an arrest last May.
As angry crowds swelled into the hundreds outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department building on Sunday night, officers in riot gear fired rubber bullets and lobbed flash bangs at protesters and let off clouds of chemical irritants.
The man killed by police was identified by relatives and governor of Minnesota Tim Walz as Daunte Wright, aged 20. Mr Walz said in a statement that he was monitoring the unrest in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis, as “our state mourns another life of a black man taken by law enforcement”.

Protestors shout ‘Don’t shoot’ while kneeling and raising up their arms in front of a line of police officers at the Brooklyn Center Police Station. Photograph: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty


Anti-police protesters have already spent recent days rallying in Minneapolis as the trial of Derek Chauvin, a white former city policeman, enters the third week in a courthouse ringed with barriers and soldiers from the National Guard.
Mr Chauvin is charged with murder and manslaughter for kneeling on the neck of Mr Floyd, a 46-year-old black man in handcuffs, during the deadly arrest last May, video of which sparked global protests against police brutality.
‘Don’t run’
Mr Wright’s mother, Katie Wright, told reporters at the scene that she received a call from her son on Sunday afternoon telling her that police had pulled him over for having air fresheners dangling from his rear-view mirror, illegal in Minnesota. She could hear police tell her son to get out the vehicle, she said.
“I heard scuffling and I heard police officers say, ‘Daunte, don’t run,’” she said through tears. The call ended and she dialed his number again, and his girlfriend answered and said he was now dead in the driver’s seat.
In a statement, Brooklyn Center police said officers pulled over a man for a traffic violation just before 2pm and found he had an outstanding arrest warrant. As police tried to arrest him, he got back in the car. One officer shot the man, who was not identified in the statement. The man drove several blocks before striking another vehicle and dying at the scene.
Police say both officers’ body cameras were recording during the incident. The state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said it was investigating the shooting.

People gather at the spot where a police officer shot and killed Daunte Wright (20) in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota on Sunday. Photograph: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty


The Minnesota branch of the American Civil Liberties Union said another independent agency should investigate and demanded the immediate release of any videos of the shooting. The group said it had “deep concerns that police here appear to have used dangling air fresheners as an excuse for making a pretextual stop, something police do all too often to target black people”.
Near the site of the shooting, protesters yelled angrily at a line of police in riot gear holding long batons in front of them. Some protesters vandalised two police vehicles, pelting them with stones and jumping on them.
Police fired rubber bullets, hitting at least two in the crowd, with at least one man left bleeding from the head, a witness said, before crowds marched to the police department building.
Sunday’s shooting was “tragic”, said Brooklyn Center mayor Mike Elliott. “We are asking the protesters to continue to be peaceful and that peaceful protesters are not dealt with force,” he said in a statement. – Reuters