A day of fury in the United States | Curfew…

America has once again seen hours of fury on the streets. Minnesota authorities declare a state of emergency and a curfew starting at 7 p.m. in the city of Minneapolis following the death of another African American at the hands of the police, just as the end of George Floyd’s murder trial draws near. According to the Brooklyn Center Police Department, Sunday an agent wanted to use his taser to immobilize Daunte Wright, delayed for a traffic violationbut he got confused and shot his gun, which ended the 20-year-old’s life. President Joe Biden ruled on the incident and He said the peaceful protests are understandable, but that “there is absolutely no justification “for the riots.

The same monday at least one teenager was killed and a police officer injured in a Knoxville city high school shootout, in the state of Tennessee. Violence also erupted over the weekend at a southern California beach when a white supremacist rally collided with around 200 people. mobilized del movimiento Black Lives Matter. During the protests, dispersed by police, protesters were seen wearing symbols of the Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and former President Donald Trump.

The Daunte Wright case

America’s Last Crying Racial Crime Happened This Weekend At Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis, and the victim has been identified as Daunte Wright. The local police department’s version is that the young man was driving his car and after being delayed at a police check it was determined that he had a pending court order for an offense. Daunte got back into his vehicle, but when he ignored the loud voice, a policeman fired and the impact ended his life.

Against the police version Katie Wright, Daunte’s mother, said her son was shot before getting back into the vehicle and was delayed for wearing an air freshener hanging from the rearview mirror of his car, something considered a “felony” in the state of Minnesota.

On Monday, Brooklyn Center City Police Commander Tim Gannon said that the agent involved in the crime did not want to shoot but mistook his gun for his Taser gun. “It was an accidental discharge that resulted in a tragic death,” he said.

To clearly protest Wright’s crime, Hundreds of people gathered outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department headquarters on Sunday. The crowd lit candles and wrote a clear message in chalk in the street: “Justice for Daunte Wright”. The police asked the protesters to disperse, they did not and that’s where the crackdown began. Tear gas and stun grenades were fired. So, around midnight, the national guard is mobilized.

At a joint press conference Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and the mayors of Minneapolis and Saint Paul (the state’s two largest cities) on Monday announced a state of emergency and a curfew. The measures aim to avoid possible nighttime incidents during which demonstrations such as those which took place on Sunday are planned.

The mobilisations for the murder of Daunte Wright unfold as Trial of Derek Chauvin, police officer charged with murdering African American George Floyd, takes place in Minneapolis last May in the same city. Floyd was killed when four officers attempted to arrest him for using a fake invoice to pay at a store. During his arrest, Chauvin pinned him to the ground by pressing his knee against his neck until he sustained injuries which he then choked on.

Fatal shot in Tennessee

The violence continued Monday afternoon in the city of Knoxville, where at least one teenager was killed and a police officer injured in a high school shooting.. The perpetrator exchanged gunshots with the police and a suspect was arrested.

Bob Thomas, principal of Knox County Schools, clarified on his Twitter account that the building that houses the institute was quickly secured and students who were not involved in the incident were sent home with their families.

School shootings have been a recurring scourge in the United States since the tragic massacre in Columbine, Colorado, in April 1999. Denouncing an “epidemic” of armed violence, the Democratic President Joe Biden last week announced a series of measures to limit the use and carrying of firearms in the countryAlthough he has acknowledged that there is not much he can do on his own if Congress does not stop blocking any attempt to increase control over pistols and rifles.

Supremacists in the streets

On Sunday, a crowd of protesters under the slogan White Lives Matter took to the streets near Huntington Beach Pier in California, where they met demonstrators against racism and police violence. The supremacists quickly dispersed after police declared an “illegal gathering” amid increasingly hostile clashes.

The mobilization drew a cross section of people with far-right beliefs like the Proud Boys, supporters of the use of weapons in self-defense and anti-abortionists. On one side of the street, anti-racism protesters could be seen shouting, “Nazis, come home!”, While on the other a large group waved their flags in favor of Trump.

Authorities are not sure who hosted the White Lives Matter event, but he was called out via social media such as Telegram. same some residents of the town of Huntington claim to have received flyers from the Ku Klux Klan, a situation which triggered the alarms of the anti-racist movement. In addition to those seen in Huntington, small demonstrations are multiplying in Seattle, Columbia and New York.