Ardent California Deputy Maxine Waters joined hundreds of angry protesters thronging in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on Sunday, all breaking the 11 p.m. curfew during a seventh night of protests against the police’s murder of Daunte Wright.
“We have to stay on the street, and we have to demand justice,” she told the crowd tweeted clip
“We are seeking a guilty verdict” in Derek Chauvin’s trial for the murder of George Floyd by police, where deliberations will begin next week, she said.
“And if we don’t, we can’t leave,” she added. “We need to become more confrontational.”
Asked about curfew, she said “I don’t know what a curfew means”, according to another tweeted clip
“A curfew means’ I want you guys to stop talking ‘,’ she said, adding, ‘I don’t agree.’
Waters said she wouldn’t stick around personally with the protest much longer, but she urged everyone else to keep doing it.
“I came here for one reason, just to be here, to make sure I shared my thoughts with all those who have spent so much time on the street. And so I am hopeful that the protests will continue, ”she said.
Protesters began to sing and play music for the night outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department, apparently live video was shown on YouTube.
“Not good police in a racist system!” “FK your curfew!” and “No justice, no peace!” they shouted, amid more colorful slogans.
The day before, nearly 100 people were arrested after the mob tried to knock down a fence around the police station.
Journalists who said they had been attacked and detained with pepper spray were among those detained by police, who photographed press references before allowing journalists to leave.
Minnesota government Tim Walz condemned those actions against the press Saturday as “unacceptable in all circumstances” and promised the incidents “would be investigated,” The Star Tribune reported.
Wright was shot dead during an April 11 traffic stop by former Brooklyn Center officer Kim Potter, who claims she intended to use a stun gun. Potter quit his job and was charged with manslaughter.
Wright’s murder came just days before Chicago authorities released a video of police shooting 13-year-old Adam Toledo on March 29, sparking rallies and protests in that city.
On Saturday night, protests had spread on the streets of Washington, DC, where an itinerant crowd of about 150 people walked the streets chanting the names of those killed by police, according to journalist Chuck Modi, who posted the video to Twitter. .
“George Floyd means we have to fight back. Sandra Bland means we have to fight back. Adam Toledo means we have to fight back. Breonna Taylor means we have to fight back, ” they cried
In Portland, haunted by fiery protests for several months, people spent early Saturday trying to clean up after protesters set at least one fire the night before.
Police had declared the protest, including broken glass, graffiti and fires, a riot. Protesters destroyed a park and damaged a church serving homeless people, The Oregonian reported.
“All the destruction is pretty gruesome,” a man covering a shattered window in a restaurant told the newspaper. “We had the shelves removed in November. But I think that was too soon. “
Area resident David Dickson said he understands the protesters’ anger, but told The Oregonian, “we need to find a better way.”