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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Brooklyn Center police say an officer fatally shot a driver Sunday, leading to clashes between protesters and law enforcement in the midst of the Derek Chauvin trial. Here are the latest updates:
11:12 p.m.: Brooklyn Center schools will be closed Monday, and all instruction will switch to distance learning.
11:07 p.m.: Police with neighboring city Brooklyn Park say someone shot at the front door of their police department just after 8 p.m., shattering it. Police also say several businesses in the city have been looted Sunday night.
10:06 p.m.: Law enforcement are keeping their human chain perimeter strong around the Brooklyn Center Police Department, as flash bangs continue to be deployed.
As the crowd chants “hands up don’t shoot” flashbangs are thrown. Got it in this video @WCCO pic.twitter.com/nMH5jNebbH
— David Schuman (@david_schuman) April 12, 2021
Brooklyn Center has 45 officers in its police department. Looks like most, if not all, are holding this line pic.twitter.com/9dlxlqkpZe
— David Schuman (@david_schuman) April 12, 2021
10:03 p.m.: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz takes to Twitter to comment on the situation in Brooklyn Center.
I am closely monitoring the situation in Brooklyn Center. Gwen and I are praying for Daunte Wright’s family as our state mourns another life of a Black man taken by law enforcement.
— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) April 12, 2021
9:58 p.m.: Law enforcement begin to use tear gas and flash bangs in an effort to disperse the crowd.
LISTEN: tear gas and flashbangs deployed right in front of us pic.twitter.com/rDC8P94XZE
— David Schuman (@david_schuman) April 12, 2021
9:52 p.m.: Law enforcement appear to be preparing to advance on protesters after they were given a warning to disperse.
The line of officers chanting “Move back” as they come forward in formation. The line stretches to cover the entire building @WCCO pic.twitter.com/Dfb0RpRi4f
— David Schuman (@david_schuman) April 12, 2021
9:49 p.m.: The standoff continues outside of the Brooklyn Center Police Department between protesters and law enforcement.
Dozens of officers in riot gear outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department – there’s about a 20-30 yard gap between them and the protesters pic.twitter.com/k17IH67re1
— David Schuman (@david_schuman) April 12, 2021
9:24 p.m.: A WCCO crew spotted several law enforcement vehicles, including Hennepin County Sheriff’s vans and armored trucks, headed towards the Brooklyn Center Police Department.
Lots of backup headed to the Brooklyn Center Police Department. @david_schuman headed there. @WCCO pic.twitter.com/IPQkb0Mr8P
— Jason D. Myles (@JasonDMyles) April 12, 2021
9:14 p.m.: Law enforcement are forming a human barricade outside of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, as more protesters gather.
Strong line of law enforcement outside Brooklyn Center Police Station @WCCO pic.twitter.com/ZKV7xMPqnU
— Jason D. Myles (@JasonDMyles) April 12, 2021
9:08 p.m.: Protesters are said to be moving to the Brooklyn Center Police Department, located about three miles northwest of the crash scene.
Protesters say they’re headed to the Brooklyn Center Police Department as they chant the victim’s name, Daunte Wright pic.twitter.com/pwEt0yFDrp
— David Schuman (@david_schuman) April 12, 2021
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.
8:02 p.m.: Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliot is appealing for peace between protesters and law enforcement.
The officer shooting in Brooklyn Center today is tragic. We are asking the protesters to continue to be peaceful and that peaceful protesters are not dealt with with force.
— Mayor Mike Elliott (@mayor_elliott) April 12, 2021
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.
Some started running after crowd threw a few things at law enforcement. Activist asking for peace – saying “we can do better.” “If you don’t want to get tear gassed, leave now.” Saying they have milk in case it does happen pic.twitter.com/7AJkMpE8SE
— Jason D. Myles (@JasonDMyles) April 12, 2021
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Brooklyn Center police said officers pulled over a driver they said had an outstanding arrest warrant, just before 2 p.m. on the 6300 block of Orchard Avenue. As officers were trying to arrest the driver, police say they tried to get back inside their vehicle. An officer then shot the driver, who then drove a couple blocks more before hitting another vehicle in the area of 63rd Avenue North and Kathrene Drive. No one in that second vehicle was hurt.
(credit: CBS)
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.
A crowd began to gather at the scene of the crash later in the afternoon, including several people who had attended a St. Paul rally earlier in the day for the families of people killed by police. At one point, just after 6 p.m., protesters tore down crime scene tape, with the crowd and the victim’s family demanding answers from law enforcement.
Crowd pushing law enforcement back pic.twitter.com/4Ta7ed2ghU
— Jason D. Myles (@JasonDMyles) April 12, 2021
The victim’s mother, Katie Wright, spoke to the crowd. She said her son — 20-year-old Daunte Wright — had been killed by police. She said Wright’s 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.
Wright’s mother said her son called her to say, “Mom, I’m getting pulled over,” and, “They’re 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 son’s girlfriend called her to say he had been shot. Wright’s 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 (credit: Katie Wright)
“I just want people to know that if you get pulled over, make sure you put your hands up and don’t make any sudden moves, and don’t have air fresheners in your car because that’s why he got pulled over. And he was only 20 years old and he didn’t deserve to be shot and killed like this,” Wright said. “And I don’t want all of this, all of this. I just want my baby home. That’s all I want is I want him to be home. I don’t want everybody out here chanting and screaming, yelling, I just want him home, that’s it.”
Community activist Lisa Clemons, from the organization A Mother’s Love, spoke to both Wright’s family and Brooklyn Center police Sunday evening.
“We’re already a trial with George Floyd, so we have another police-involved shooting, and earlier today over north [Minneapolis] we had a carjacking with guns, and I just think that we’re at a breaking point as a people,” Clemons said. “We hope to calm our community, we hope to let them express their pain in whatever way they want, but just not in violence.”
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is leading the investigation.
This deadly police encounter comes just one day before the start of week three in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the now-former Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of George Floyd.
Check back for more details as they become available in this developing story.
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