Former police officer Kim Potter has been sentenced to two years in prison for manslaughter over the death of Daunte Wright, who tried to flee a traffic stop.
The Minnesota Student Association (MSA) is calling on University of Minnesota Police Department (UMPD) Chief Matthew Clark to resign, alleging that the chief has failed to “increase campus wellness and safety for students of color.”
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) had a police escort while traveling to Minnesota, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption. Saturday
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News exclusively that he will move to formally censure House Financial Services Committee chairwoman Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) over her call to violence in Minnesota this weekend.
Law enforcement in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, arrested at least 24 people during a fourth night of protests. Hundreds of activists, including Black Lives Matter and Antifa, gathered outside the police headquarters and remained after unlawful assembly and curfew declarations.
Protesters in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, began placing embattlements on the streets outside the police headquarters building as the city’s curfew approached. They also carried improved shielding to allow protesters to hide from police projectiles while they throw objects at the police.
BLM protesters attacked news media during the fourth night of demonstrations outside the Blanchard Center Police Department headquarters on Wednesday night. A CNN news crew member fell to the ground after being struck in the head by a thrown water bottle.
Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott told reporters Tuesday that he does not believe officers need to have weapons during every traffic stop. His comments follow the shooting death of Daunte Wright on Sunday.
Former Brooklyn Center Police Department officer Kim Potter was arrested Wednesday and will be charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting death of Daunte Wright, according to developing reports.
Police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, arrested at least 60 protesters during a third night of rioting. More than 800 marched to the station following the officer-involved shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man.
Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon resigned on Tuesday following the recent officer-involved shooting death of Daunte Wright.
Kim Potter, the Brooklyn Center Police officer who shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, has resigned effective immediately, according to a developing local report.
Portland, Oregon, police declared a protest over the shooting death of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, to be a riot after the crowd turned violent Monday night. Police made multiple arrests after orders to disperse were ignored.
Riots and looting continued Monday night in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and neighboring Minneapolis. Police officers arrested at least 53 people in the two cities.
Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama voiced Tuesday their support to “reimagine policing” in American communities in reaction to the latest police shooting of Daunte Wright in Minnesota. “Our hearts are heavy over yet another shooting
A second night of looting broke out in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Monday night following Sunday’s shooting of an unarmed black man. The looting followed a protest outside the city’s police station.
Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) reacted to the police-involved shooting death of Daunte Wright, calling for an end to “policing, incarceration, and militarization.’
Reporters loudly objected to the use of the word “riot” by a Minnesota police chief after his officers were assaulted and injured by bricks, rocks, and frozen soda cans, he explained. The chief defended the term by describing the incidents encountered by officers at the station Sunday night.
Joe Biden added that “peaceful protest” of the police shooting was “understandable.”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) has mobilized the National Guard after rioters vandalized the Brooklyn Center Police Department Sunday because law enforcement shot and killed a black man with an outstanding warrant.
