Daunte Wright shooting: Protesters and police clash for third night in suburb of Minneapolis as prosecutors weigh charges against officer

The third day of the protest began peacefully, but on Tuesday night there was chaos around the Brooklyn Center police station. Officers used pepper spray and fired flash bombs at protesters, who threw water bottles and other projectiles at officers in riot gear.

Protesters were also seen climbing a fence outside the FBI office, holding a banner reading “Justice for Daunte Wright”. Members of the National Guard were on the ground in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis and St. Paul.

By the time the 10 p.m. curfew went into effect in the city, the hundreds of protesters had fallen to a few dozen. Police officers and police vehicles forming a line across the front yards and the street blocking the police station, those who remained draped themselves in blankets and lit a small trash fire in the falling snow.

In the street where the demonstrators once stood side by side, the few remaining chanted: “Say her name Daunte Wright” and “I smell the bacon, fry the pig”.

Minnesota State Patrol Chief Matt Langer said the Brooklyn Center United Command made “more than 60 arrests” Tuesday night, many of them for “rioting and other criminal behavior.”

Speaking at the same late-night press conference, Hennepin County Sheriff David Hutchinson said there was recognition of the pain suffered in the community on Sunday night. “The person [Kim Potter] is no longer a police officer, and they will be held accountable for their actions, ”he said. them.”

Two families reunite in tragedy

Floyd’s family left the courthouse during Chauvin’s trial on Tuesday “because they believed it was important to comfort Daunte Wright’s mother” and the family, lawyer Ben Crump said in a statement. press conference with the two families.

“We will support you. … The world is traumatized, seeing another African American man being killed,” said Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd. “I woke up in the morning with that in mind. I don’t want to see another victim.”

Wright and Floyd’s losses were recognized during Tuesday’s protests. Protesters knelt for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, to symbolize the time during which authorities say Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck.

And just like the Floyd family did last year, the Wright family is looking for more answers regarding the death of their loved one.

One of the family’s attorneys, Jeffrey Storms, told CNN that Gannon’s explanation – that the shooting appeared to be an accident – “is by no means appropriate or sufficient.”

“There were a number of intentional events that led to (Daunte Wright) ‘s death, and we need to know exactly why each of these intentional events happened,” Storms said.

“Grabbing your handgun that you’ve probably deployed thousands, if not tens of thousands of times is an intentional act,” Storms said. “A handgun feels different from a Taser. It’s different from a Taser. (It) requires different pressure to deploy it.”

Wright’s father Aubrey Wright told ABC on Tuesday he couldn’t accept Gannon’s explanation that Sunday’s shooting was accidental.

“I can’t accept that – a mistake. It doesn’t even seem right,” he told ABC’s “Good Morning America”. He cited the officer’s seniority – authorities said she had worked for the Brooklyn Center Police for 26 years.

Wright’s mother, Katie Wright, said she wanted to see the officer “held accountable for everything she took from us.”

“It should never, never have escalated like it did,” Katie Wright told ABC.

What happened to the traffic stop that ended Wright’s life

Wright was with his girlfriend on Sunday afternoon, driving to the home of his older brother, Damik Bryant.

Officers arrested him at the Brooklyn Center on an expired tag and learned he had an outstanding warrant, police said.

It was not immediately clear what the warrant was for.

Wright gave officers his name before calling his mother, Bryant said.

“They asked him to get out of the car, and you know his first instinct was, ‘What have I done, what’s wrong?’ And they were like, ‘Well put the phone down, get out of the car now, we’ll talk to you when you get out,’ “said Bryant.

“So I heard the phone go on the dash or drop, and I heard some fighting, and I heard the police say, ‘Daunte, don’t run.’ And then the other officer said, “Put the phone down” “before the phone looks like it’s hung up,” she said.

Body camera images released on Monday show Wright standing outside his vehicle, arms behind his back and an officer directly behind him, trying to handcuff him. An officer tells Wright “don’t do it,” before Wright turns away and returns to the driver’s seat of the car.

Gannon said on Monday that it emerged from the video that Wright was trying to leave.

The officer whose camera footage was released is heard warning the man that she is going to use her Taser on him, before yelling repeatedly, “Taser! Taser! Taser!”

Then we hear the officer screaming, “Holy shit! I just shot him.”

The car door closes and Wright walks away. The car crashed several blocks away, police said. Police and medics tried to save lives after the crash, but Wright died at the scene, Gannon said.