White cop kills 20-year-old Black man in Minneapolis suburb, sparking racial unrest as the George Floyd murder trial continues....The police chief relative to the police killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a Minneapolis suburb, tries to paint Wright's shooting death by police as an accident, angering protesters

Protesters in Brooklyn, Minnesota, a Minneapolis suburb located some 10 miles from where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in May of 2020, clash with police after the police shooting death on Sunday of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. CNN photo

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota-As the prosecution in the murder trial of fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin brings its case to an end, a 20-year-old Black man in Minnesota was shot by a White police officer and died following a traffic stop on Sunday in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, drawing hundreds of protesters to the streets Sunday night as protesters clashed with police. (Editor's note: Chauvin is White and on trial for killing George Floyd, who was Black, on May 25 following an arrest and faces charges of second degree intentional murder, third degree murder, and second degree manslaughter. Three other police officers at the scene who were also fired await trial on lesser charges).

Sunday's incident  in Brooklyn Center occurred some 10 miles from where Chauvin killed George Floyd, CNN reports, and has ignited outcries regarding excessive force by police against Black people, mainly Black men. 

According to CNN, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz identified the man killed in Sunday's incident as Daunte Wright.

"Gwen and I are praying for Daunte Wright's family as our state mourns another life of a Black man taken by law enforcement," Walz tweeted.

A city curfew was quickly enacted. 

Protesters threw rocks at the Brooklyn Center police building and the governor activated some 500 members of the Minnesota National Guard to the area .

Some 20 local businesses were also broken into

Police say that the female police officer who shot and killed the young Black man was trying to take him into custody around 2 pm during a traffic stop that also included a police trainee after learning that he had outstanding warrants 

 Wright's  girlfriend was also in the vehicle.

Wright got out of the vehicle as commanded by the police officer at hand and then got back into his vehicle after he was handcuffed, reports say.

That is when the arresting police officer shot him, dash cam footage released by police reveals. 

Wright then drove several blocks before striking another vehicle. 

Though police applied CPR, he died at the scene 

Moments before he was killed and after he was pulled over, Wright, whose father is Black, called his mother to say he had been pulled over.

Wright's mother, Katie Wright, told CNN that her son was erroneously pulled over by White cops due to racial profiling, though the younger Wright was driving a car with expired tags. 

"He said they pulled him over because he had air fresheners hanging from the rear-view mirror," said Wright's mother, who is White.

"A minute later, I called and his girlfriend answered, which was the passenger in the car, and said that he'd been shot."

Katie Wright wept as she thought about her son's final moments.

"He didn't deserve to be shot and killed like this," she told CNN.

About 100 to 200 people marched toward the Brooklyn Center Police Department, Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) commissioner John Harrington said. 

After nightfall, a crowd gathered around the police department, CNN crews on scene reported. 

Officers held a line outside of the police station as protesters stood their ground and complained that Wright's shooting death was police murder just like that of George Floyd, a 46-year-old father of two whom Chauvin killed by holding his foot on his neck for nine minutes while Floyd was on the ground in handcuffs. 

Police higher-ups tried to paint the shooting death Sunday of the 20-year-old Wright as an accident.

"It is my belief that the officer had the intention to deploy their taser but instead shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet," Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said Monday, angering protesters who say his comments in defense of the killer cop are nothing more than a cover-up.

In nearby Minneapolis, a strike team was deployed to deal with reports of break-ins and shots fired, CNN reported.  

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