Minnesota cop who killed Daunte Wright and her police chief resign...Protesters are arrested as they clash with police....The CBC and Black federal lawmakers like Rep James Clyburn call for policing reforms....President Biden and Vice President Harris called Wright's shooting death tragic....Wright's family and family attorney Benjamin Crump want the cop who killed him criminally charged....George Floyd's murder trial continues 10 miles from where police killed the 20-year-old Wright...The cop who shot Wright will likely be charged with manslaughter....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders
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BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota- Police clashed with protesters Tuesday night in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center and a few were arrested after refusing to disassemble during a third night of protesting in response to the police killing on Sunday afternoon of 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, Wright's killing coming as the prosecution rest in the George Floyd murder trial and the defense begins presenting its case in a courtroom in Minneapolis just 10 miles down the road.
Protesters, young and old alike, have marched through the city of Brooklyn Center demanding justice for Wright since the killing occurred earlier this week.
The protesting began Sunday night where protesters quarreled with police and broke into some 20 local businesses, and continued through Monday and Tuesday night.
By midnight Wednesday morning protesters had disseminated but vowed to come back night after night.
Police were on edge and held a line after threatening more of them with an arrest amid live coverage from CNN and other top national and international news networks.
Police shot off tear gas during a contentious protest on Monday night.
Tuesday night's protest was even more contentious.
Police also shot off rubber bullets, and some of them even shoved protesters.
A nightly curfew is in order and the state patrol and Minnesota National Guard remain on guard, fearing potential riots, sources say, like those that erupted locally and nationwide in the aftermath of Floyd's death in May of last year.
A strong National Guard contingent stood by early afternoon on Tuesday as protesters chanted, prayed, and sang songs, and some threw debris at police, mainly water bottles.
The former chief said the officer mistakenly pulled her gun, and not her taser, a statement that angered Black Civil Rights leaders protesters and Wright family attorneys, who joined with Floyd's family members for a press conference against the police chief.
Manslaughter charges are expected to be filed against Potter, sources said.
About 500 protesters, most of them young and many of them White, confronted police during the height of the three-night racial unrest in Brooklyn Center that is making national news as the Congressional Black Caucus and federal lawmakers like former House minority whip Rep James Clyburn of South Carolina call for policing reforms.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have said that Wright's killing is a tragedy, and called for calm, Harris saying further that Wright died unjustly at the hands of police and that race played a part in his shooting death.
Wright family attorney Benjamin Crump wants an indictment on murder and other criminal charges of the cop who killed Wright as the celebrated case is a reminder of how little the life of Black men mean to anxious cops with little training who often do as they please to Black people under the clothe of qualified immunity and the protection by a racist legal system that oppresses Black people.
Rep Clyburn wants laws amended to do away with qualified immunity, a legal defense that essentially protects law enforcement in the line of duty if they act within the scope of their authority.
Wright's shooting death, occurring simultaneous with the George Floyd murder trial a stone's throw away, has made Minneapolis and its metropolitan area, inclusive of the suburban city of Brooklyn Center, the epicenter of excessive force shooting deaths of unarmed Black men like Floyd and Wright.
A veteran cop before he was fired after killing Floyd on May 25 following an arrest for alleged forgery, Chauvin is White and faces charges of second degree intentional murder, third degree murder, and second degree manslaughter.
Three other police officers at the scene who did nothing while Chauvin held his knee on the neck of the handcuffed Floyd for more than nine minutes until he killed him were also fired and await trial on lesser charges
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