{"id":417588,"date":"2021-04-13T11:58:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T15:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=417588"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:58:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T15:58:54","slug":"blm-protests-continue-for-second-day-over-officer-involved-shooting-in-minn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-protests-continue-for-second-day-over-officer-involved-shooting-in-minn\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM protests continue for second day over officer-involved shooting in Minn."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblm-protests-continue-for-second-day-over-officer-involved-shooting-in-minn%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=417588&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2397454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2397454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd gathers at the Brooklyn Center Police Department in Brooklyn Center, Minn., Monday, April 12, 2021, for a No Justice No Peace rally following the police shooting death of Daunte Wright. (Carlos Gonzalez\/Star Tribune via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 8:54 AM PT \u2013 Tuesday, April 13, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Law enforcement officials reported at least 40 arrests have been made in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota after protests broke out over the shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.<\/p>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/live\/?v=543739259948756&amp;ref=watch_permalink&amp;t=303\">press conference<\/a> Tuesday, Col. Matt Langer announced the arrests vary from curfew violations to rioting. He said the Minnesota State Police and numerous other law enforcement agencies are focused on protecting the Brooklyn Center Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>According to Langer, some officers were hit with objects thrown by protestors, in turn, resulting in the deployments of chemical irritants and flashbangs to disperse the crowds.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters took to the streets Sunday after the death of Wright, who died while trying to flee police during a traffic stop. The incident happened in Brooklyn Center, just 10 miles from where the attempted arrest of George Floyd took place. Police were reportedly trying to arrest Wright for an outstanding warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Officials released body-cam footage of the shooting, which they are characterizing as an \u201caccidental discharge.\u201d They said the officer, identified by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension as Kim Porter, went for her taser but drew her gun by mistake.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow: Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon says it is his \u201cbelief that the officer had the intention to employ his taser but instead shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says Daunte Wright\u2019s killing was caused by an \u201caccidental discharge\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j60gBZLagr\">pic.twitter.com\/j60gBZLagr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Phil_Lewis_\/status\/1381659321096925186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Police said Porter, who has worked for the department for nearly 26 years and is president of the Brooklyn Center Police Officer\u2019s Association, is now on administrative leave while an investigation is carried out.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of neighboring St. Paul said following the violence while authorities lament Wright\u2019s accidental death protesters should not use the occasion to further traumatize communities by \u201cexploit his death to wreak havoc and destruction on our neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/suspect-dead-1-officer-shot-at-knoxville-high-school-shooting\/\"> Suspect dead, 1 officer shot at Knoxville high school shooting<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crowd gathers at the Brooklyn Center Police Department in Brooklyn Center, Minn., Monday, April 12, 2021, for a No Justice No Peace rally following the police shooting death of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276043,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}