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Protests Erupts In Minneapolis After Police Shot A Black Man

April 12, 2021 4:55 am

Protests have broken out in the US city of Minneapolis after a policeman fatally shot a young Black man very close to where George Floyd was killed sometime last year.

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.

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Violence Divides Protesters, As ‘Chaos’ Grips Minneapolis

May 30, 2020 4:11 pm

Flames light up the skyline and the smell of acrid smoke fills the streets in a Minneapolis neighborhood rocked by protest, a few hundred meters from a besieged police station.

“The real reason we’re here is because the police keep killing black folk all around the United States,” says a young African American man who declined to be named.

His face covered by a mask — whether because of the coronavirus or to protect against tear gas it’s not clear — he says he came to protest peacefully on Friday with friends, despite a curfew imposed after three nights of …