Monday, April 12, 2021 at 10:30:00 A.M. EDT
Take two: Minnesota black’s Death Starts Riots, Looting
GRA: The mayor of Brooklyn Center is BLACK! I don’t understand it.
(ABCNews) BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. -- A black man died after being shot by police in a Minneapolis suburb during a traffic stop and crashing his car several blocks away, sparking violent protests that lasted into the early hours Monday as officers in riot gear clashed with demonstrators and the man’s mother called for calm.
The man was identified by family as 20-year-old Daunte Wright, and he died Sunday in a metropolitan area already on edge and midway through the trial of the first of four police officers charged in George Floyd’s death. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz tweeted he was praying for Wright’s family “as our state mourns another life of a black man taken by law enforcement.”
Speaking before the confrontation in Brooklyn Center between protesters and law enforcement, Daunte’s mother, Katie Wright, attempted to curb any unrest.
“All the violence, if it keeps going it’s only going to be about the violence. We need it to be about why my son got shot for no reason,” she said to a crowd near the shooting scene. “We need to make sure it’s about him and not about smashing police cars, because that’s not going to bring my son back."
Brooklyn Center police said in a statement that officers had stopped a motorist shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday. After determining the driver had an outstanding warrant, police tried to arrest the driver. The driver reentered the vehicle and an officer fired at the vehicle, striking the driver, police said. The vehicle traveled several blocks before striking another vehicle.
The account of the shooting from Wright’s family differed, with Katie Wright saying he was shot before getting back into the car.
Court records show Wright was being sought for fleeing from law enforcement officers and for possessing a gun without a permit during an encounter with Minneapolis police in June. In that case, a statement of probable cause said police got a call about a man waving a gun who was later identified as Wright.
Police said the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office will release the name of the person who died Sunday following a preliminary autopsy and family notification. A female passenger sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the crash. Brooklyn Center is a city of about 30,000 people located on the northwest border of Minneapolis.
Katie Wright said that passenger was her son’s girlfriend. Wright said her son called her as he was getting pulled over.
“All he did was have air fresheners in the car and they told him to get out of the car,” Wright said. During the call, she said she heard scuffling and then someone saying “Daunte, don’t run” before the call ended. When she called back, her son’s girlfriend answered and said he’d had been shot.
Demonstrators gathered shortly after the shooting and crash, with some jumping on top of police cars and confronting officers. Marchers also descended upon the Brooklyn Center police department building, where rocks and other objects were thrown at officers, Minnesota Department of Public Safety commissioner John Harrington said at a news conference. The protesters had largely dispersed by 1:15 a.m. Monday, he said.
About 20 businesses had been broken into at the city’s Shingle Creek shopping center, Harrington said. Law enforcement agencies were coordinating to tame the unrest, he said, and the National Guard was activated.
GRA: It’s riot season early this year—watch Lesta embellish and provoke tonight, in his attempt to spread the rioting to other areas of the country.
--GRA
5 comments:
If a black gets out of his car and then attempts to go back in it,police have every right to believe he will use that car as a weapon against them.He previously resisted arrest for waving a gun around.Cops have a right to protect themselves.He may have had a gun in the car also,but just the act of defying cops--and entering the car--was a threat to their lives.The sooner blacks understand this,the less they will provoke their own deaths.Mammy Wright is definitely setting up for a 20 mill payoff.
--GRA
It was all about air fresheners? The cops think the lady cop pulled a firearm rather than the taser.
"WHITE LIVES MATTER" RALLY FIZZLES--WHAT'S NEW?
(TMZ)A so-called White Lives Matter rally is ending early in Orange County .... since way more people showed up to counter the group's message.
The march went down Sunday afternoon in Huntington Beach, CA, and several face-offs -- mostly verbal -- broke out, but this one came closest to getting physical. When 3 men there supporting the rally quickly found themselves surrounded.
The counter-protesters were outnumbering the WLM contingent all day ... even before the rally got off the ground. When marchers, like these guys, did show up they were greeted by chants like, "Go home Nazis."
The ol' strength in numbers theory was in full effect, though, as the huge crowd chased these 3 guys away from the action ... without laying a hand on them.
There was a heavy police presence in the area all day, and police just declared an unlawful assembly as they begin clearing the streets ... but it's fair to say the White Lives Matter event -- purportedly organized by the KKK -- did not go as planned.
GRA:I don't know what it will take to get Whites to see the need to unite against the groups who want us destroyed.A few people showing up is an embarrassment.
--GRA
Update:Body cam video showed the black,breaking out of being handcuffed and going back in his car.A policewoman fired at him,thinking she had a tasergun,but it was a real gun.
No more thug.Less crime in the future as a result--lots of it tonight though as rioting will commence after dark.
-GRA
The mayor fired the city manager and then took control of the police. Lot of good that is going to do. Cat outta the bag now.
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