US police are still clashing with protesters for the second day in a row in Minnesota after murdering a black youth named Daunte Wright, 20 years, last Sunday.
On the other hand, the trial of Derek Chauvin, a police officer who was suspected of killing George Floyd is still ongoing.
Troopers of agencies of law enforcement swept Brooklynn district Monday evening to disperse the angry protesters.
Troopers used canisters of tear gas, sound bombs, and other non-lethal means to disperse hundreds of people who gathered outside the police station, according to the New York Times.
The protesters refused to go away despite a new curfew for much of the Twin Cities region.
The officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop near Minneapolis mistakenly confused her gun for her Taser( a non-lethal gun), police officials said on Monday, quickly releasing the video as they tried to ease tensions in a state on edge over the Derek Chauvin trial, according to the New York Times.
In a brief clip of body camera video, officers from the Brooklyn Center Police Department can be seen trying to handcuff the driver, Daunte Wright, before he suddenly lurches back into his car. One of the officers aims a weapon at Wright and shouts, “Taser! Taser! Taser!”
She fires one round, and Wright groans in pain.
“Holy shit, I just shot him,” the officer can be heard shouting.
Late Monday, the officer who fired the fatal shot was identified as Kim Potter, who has worked for the department for 26 years.
The announcement came as protesters faced off with the police. Hundreds had gathered outside the Brooklyn Center police station for the second consecutive night, defying a new 7 p.m. curfew in a steady rain.
Demonstrators occasionally lobbed water bottles and rocks over newly erected fencing, chanting “killer cop” and “hands up, don’t shoot” while officers clad in riot gear stood guard.
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