Violence flares after Brooklyn Center police fatally shoot man, 20 (Minneapolis suburb)

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.startribune.com/brooklyn-center-police-fatally-shoot-man-20-inflaming-tensions-during-the-derek-chauvin-trial/600044821/

A Brooklyn Center police officer fatally shot a man during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon, inflaming already raw tensions between police and community members in the midst of the Derek Chauvin trial.

Relatives of Daunte Wright, 20, who is Black, told a tense crowd gathered at the scene in the northern Minneapolis suburb Sunday afternoon that Wright drove for a short distance after he was shot, crashed his car, and died at the scene.

Protesters later walked to the Brooklyn Center police headquarters near N. 67th Avenue and N. Humboldt Avenue and were locked in a standoff with police in riot gear late Sunday night. Officers repeatedly ordered the crowd of about 500 to disperse as protesters chanted Wright's name and climbed atop the police headquarters sign, by then covered in graffiti. Police used tear gas, flash bangs and rubber bullets on the crowd.

National Guard troops arrived just before midnight as looters targeted the Brooklyn Center Walmart and nearby shopping mall. Several businesses around the Walmart were completely destroyed, including Foot Locker, T Mobile, and a New York men's clothing store.

Seems to me the violence *started* when a cop shot the man.

[Srkdqltr]

1. Seems like if cities don't want violence they should

Put pressure on police to quit killing people. Simple?

[The Magistrate]

2. Conspicuous By Its Absence From Accounts Of This

Is what the warrant was for.

Was it for unpaid parking tickets, or taking a bat to someone's knee?

If the former, police hadn't the slightest reason to use deadly force, and if it was for something of the latter sort, one suspects the allegations in the warrant would be featured prominently.

Similarly, if the young man had any sort of criminal record, one could expect it to have been widely touted by now.

Investigation ought to focus on whether an officer shot this young man with the deliberate intent of provoking unrest that might help the murderous Chauvin escape justice by its influence on the jury.

[whathehell]

5. My question too..

Most pertinent...

[Celerity]

3. Multiple eye witnesses claimed he was stopped for haing too many air fresheners in his car

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. It's illegal to have things hanging from your rear-view mirror in your car in Minnesota.

Some cars get stopped for it. Some don't. Once the pretextual stop was upheld by the Supreme Court, police departments embraced it.

[Celerity]

6. Fuck that stupid law and fuck Minnesota racist coppers.

Shameful.

[whathehell]

7. Yes, jaywalking is illegal as well..

but such minor infractions rarely engender this sort of response.

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. And worthy of a death sentence

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. Kick.