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Related: About this forumBrooklyn Ctr, MN Police pulled over black driver, fatally shot him, protesters tear-gassed
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/04/11/bca-reporting-to-officer-involved-shooting-in-brooklyn-center/The story is being continuously updated
9:24 p.m.: A WCCO crew spotted several law enforcement vehicles, including Hennepin County Sheriffs vans and armored trucks, headed towards the Brooklyn Center Police Department.
9:14 p.m.: Law enforcement are forming a human barricade outside of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, as more protesters gather.
8:19 p.m.: A WCCO crew at the scene is being told by activists that law enforcement is surrounding the area and corralling people in an apparent attempt to make mass arrests, like what happened last November during a protest that spilled onto Interstate 94 in Minneapolis.
8:01 p.m.: Protesters are continuing to push law enforcement back.
7:59 p.m.: Law enforcement has deployed tear gas into the crowd of protesters.
For non-Minnesotans, Brooklyn Center is the first suburb north of Minneapolis. Minneapolis is of course the city where George Floyd was murdered by then Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who has been on trial for the past 2 weeks.
Link to tweet
Yes, the fatally shot driver is Black.
Cross posted at Latest Breaking News - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142727465
elleng
(136,595 posts)sboatcar
(567 posts)I've lived here my whole life and I just don't get it.
brush
(57,941 posts)after telling the cop who pulled his car over, his girlfriend driving, that he was carrying and had a carry permit. Remember the cop panicked and started just shooting into the car.
progree
(11,463 posts)Just as Brooklyn Center is the first suburb north of Minneapolis, Falcon Heights is the first suburb north of St. Paul.
Not that it's important, but Philando Castile was driving.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Philando_Castile
Reynolds posted a live stream video on Facebook in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, and the incident quickly gained international interest...
((what happened earlier: -Progree))
... A St. Anthony police officer patrolling Larpenteur Avenue radioed to a nearby squad that he planned to pull over the car and check the IDs of the driver and passenger, saying, "The two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery. The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just because of the wide-set nose. I couldn't get a good look at the passenger."
((reflect for a moment on the above bold-faced quote (I added the bolding) -- one has a wide-set nose, the other he can't get a good look at, but "the two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery" --Progree))
... Castile was the driver, Reynolds was the front-seat passenger, and the child was in the back seat....
geardaddy
(25,367 posts)progree
(11,463 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 12, 2021, 12:37 AM - Edit history (1)
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/04/11/bca-reporting-to-officer-involved-shooting-in-brooklyn-center/The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say the officers involved were believed to be wearing activated body cameras at the time of the shooting.
The victims mother, Katie Wright, spoke to the crowd. She said her son 20-year-old Daunte Wright had been killed by police. She said Wrights girlfriend was in the car with him at the time of the traffic stop. Police say that woman suffered non-life threatening injuries in the crash, and was taken to North Memorial Health.
Wrights mother said her son called her to say, Mom, Im getting pulled over, and, Theyre asking about insurance. She said she then heard officers telling him to get out of the car. When he asked why, officers told him they would explain once he got out of the vehicle. She said officers then told him to put his phone down, and then she heard someone telling her son not to run.
She then claimed an officer ended his call. She said soon after, her sons girlfriend called her to say he had been shot. Wrights mother said she went to the scene, and saw him lifeless by his car, which she had given to him just two weeks earlier.
Daunte Wright
questionseverything
(10,242 posts)marble falls
(62,399 posts)... fall out from this.
msongs
(70,227 posts)that account
dflprincess
(28,506 posts)but discharged her gun by "mistake".
He was being arrested on an outsranding warrent but managed to get back in the car before he was cuffed. The body cam has been released and is awful to watch.
progree
(11,463 posts)dflprincess
(28,506 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 12, 2021, 07:03 PM - Edit history (1)
I watched it when they were doing the press conference.
progree
(11,463 posts)MPR reporter's tweet 1047pm
progree
(11,463 posts)Some new stuff that hasn't been posted before, various excerpts, bold-facing added by me:
At about 11:30 p.m., Brooklyn Center police declared the crowd an unlawful assembly and said anyone who remained at the scene including journalists would be arrested. Minnesota National Guard personnel were seen in the area of the police station, on Humboldt Avenue north of Interstate 94.
There also were police scanner reports of sporadic looting and property damage in Minneapolis in the early morning hours Monday, prompting a large law enforcement response.
Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said more National Guard troops and state law enforcement personnel were headed into the Twin Cities and would be visible in the metro area this week, on top of personnel already in place for the ongoing Derek Chauvin trial.
Harrington said about 20 businesses had been damaged in the Shingle Creek retail area. ((Brooklyn Center))