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

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

Minnesota State Patrol chief Matt Langer said the united command at Brooklyn Center had made “more than 60 arrests” Tuesday night, many of which were for “riot and other criminal behavior.”

At the same press conference late at night, Hennepin County Sheriff David Hutchinson said there was recognition for the pain suffered in the community Sunday night. “The person [Kim Potter] is no longer a police officer, and they will be held accountable for their actions, “he said.” But we can’t have people hurting our communities, we can’t have people hurting the men and women who are paid to protect them. ”

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

By the time the 10pm curfew came into effect, the once hundreds of protesters had dwindled to a few dozen. As officers and police vehicles lined up across front yards and the street blocking the police station, the remaining ones draped in blankets and lit a small trash fire in the falling snow.

On the street where protesters once stood shoulder to shoulder, the few remaining chanted, “Say his name Daunte Wright” and “I smell bacon, fry the pig.”

Two families come together in a tragedy

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

“We will support you … The world is traumatized to watch another African American man be murdered,” said Philonise Floyd, George Floyd’s brother. ‘I woke up in the morning with this on my mind. I don’t want to see another victim. ‘

Both Wright’s and Floyd’s losses were acknowledged at the protests on Tuesday. Protesters knelt for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, to symbolize the amount of time authorities say Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck.

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

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

“There were a number of deliberate events that led to (Daunte Wright’s) death, and we need to find out exactly why each of those deliberate events took place,” Storms said.

“Grabbing your weapon that you have probably deployed thousands, if not tens of thousands of times, is a deliberate act,” Storms said. “A sidearm feels different from a Taser. It looks different from a Taser. (It) requires a different pressure to deploy.”

Wright’s father, Aubrey Wright, told ABC on Tuesday that he could not accept Gannon’s explanation that Sunday’s shooting was an accident.

“I can’t accept that – a mistake. That doesn’t even sound right,” he told ABC’s “Good Morning America.” He mentioned the officer’s seniority – authorities said she had been with the Brooklyn Center Police Department for 26 years.

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

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

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

Wright was on his way to the house of his older brother Damik Bryant with his girlfriend on Sunday afternoon.

Agents took him to Brooklyn Center for an expired tag and learned he had an outstanding warrant, police said.

It was not immediately clear what the order 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 said,’ Well put the phone down, get out of the car now, we’ll talk about it when you get out, ” ‘Bryant said.

So I heard the phone put on the dash or fell, and I heard shuffling, and I heard the police officers say, ‘Daunte, don’t run.’ And then the other officer said, ‘Put the phone down’ ‘before it sounded like the phone had been hung up, she said.

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

Gannon said on Monday that the video showed Wright was trying to leave.

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

Then the officer hears shouting, “Holy sh * t! I just shot him.”

The car door closes and Wright drives away. The car crashed a few blocks away, police said. Police and medical personnel tried to take life-saving measures after the crash, but Wright died on the spot, Gannon said.