“Following the police-perpetrated killing of a 20-year-old Black man in the Twin Cities suburb of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, hundreds of residents demonstrated outside of the police headquarters and throughout the city Sunday night into Monday morning.
About 200 protesters near police department headquarters on Sunday chanted the name of Daunte Wright, who police shot to death hours earlier.
Police responded to the protests against police-perpetrated violence with flash bangs and tear gas to disperse the crowd, claiming rocks were thrown at the building during the uprising. Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minnesota) deployed the National Guard to the area. Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott placed a curfew on the city until 6 am Monday morning.
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Many on social media did not accept that rationale as acceptable. Ben Passer, lead director of Energy Access and Equity at the Minnesota-based clean energy nonprofit Fresh Energy, opined on the matter, saying that Wright’s killing being an accident “doesn’t make it any better.”
“The power to end a life shouldn’t rest in the hands of a single officer’s careless decision. An accident shouldn’t result in the loss of life,” Passer said.”
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Walker, Chris. Truth Out 12 April 2021.