Protests after Minneapolis police shoot 20-year-old Daunte Wright
Al JazeeraPolice in the US city shot the young Black man, who later died, after pulling him over for a traffic violation. Hundreds of people, some visibly upset and one carrying a sign demanding “Justice for George Floyd”, confronted police in riot gear on Sunday night, hours after the officer shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright in his car in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. Nobody will talk to us… I said please take my son off the ground.” The Brooklyn Center police, in a statement, said officers pulled over a driver for a traffic violation on Sunday afternoon. Public mourners included Wright’s family and friends who gathered, wept and consoled each other alongside protesters who carried “Black Lives Matter” flags, jumped atop police cars, confronted officers, and walked peacefully in columns with their hands held up. “Gwen and I are praying for Daunte Wright’s family as our state mourns another life of a Black man taken by law enforcement,” he said on Twitter.