Washington, United States.
The municipality dand Brooklyn Center (Minnesota, EE.UU.) declared a curfew starting at 11 p.m. local time (Sunday 4 a.m. GMT) on Saturday in anticipation of possible riots following the death of African-American Daunte Wright by the shooting of a police officer.
City Hall announced the measure on Facebook, where he noted that the curfew will be in effect until 6 a.m. local time (11 a.m. GMT) on Sundays.
Brooklyn Center, a residential neighborhood northwest of Minneapolis, experienced the sixth night of protests and arguments after Wright’s death on Friday, with 100 inmates ending.
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Friday night was the first whole week with no curfew after that the death of the young African American last Sunday.
Before the death of Wright, who was 20 years old, former cop Kim Potter, who stepped down this week after 26 years of service, has been charged with involuntary second degree manslaughter, carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years. in prison in Minnesota.
However, due to the lack of antecedents, the penalty would be lower if it were convicted.
The Brooklyn Center Police claims the death was accidental, as Potter wanted to use a tranquilizer gun known as a “taser” to immobilize Wright, but he became confused and fired a bullet with his firearm that killed the young man at an air traffic control.
The death took place near a town, Minneapolis, where the ghosts are heating up since another white police officer, Derek Chauvin, George Floyd, also African American, last May, sparked the biggest anti-racism protests in the U.S. United States since the murder by Martin Luther King Jr. late 1960s.
Exactly, the trial of Chauvin is in its final stages in Minneapolis, with the beginning of the final defense and prosecution arguments set for Monday.