Hundreds of protesters challenged this Monday night the curfew imposed by the governor of Minnesota in protest of the death of the young African American Daunte Wright during a police check this weekend.

The protesters gathered in front of the Police Station of Brooklyn Center, the suburb of Minneapolis in which the event occurred.

After the curfew of 19:00 local time (00:00 on Tuesday GMT) was fulfilled, clashes between protesters and riot control officers of the State Police of Minnesota.

According to local media reports, there were arrests and in parallel to the clashes there were also looting of shops.

Some of the shops in the area, which were not looted, were defended by armed civilians.

Protesters gather outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department.

On Sunday, during a traffic control at Brooklyn Center, a white agent allegedly “accidentally” shot the African American Daunte Wright, 20, as explained this Monday at a press conference by the local Police Chief, Tim Ganno.

According to Ganno, the police wanted to use a stun gun known as a “taser” to immobilize WrightBut he got confused and fired a bullet with his firearm that killed the man.

Regarding the reason for the traffic stop, he explained that the vehicle was intercepted because it did not have some papers in order, after which they asked for identification from Wright And then they realized that he had an arrest warrant pending for not having appeared in court for the crimes of illegal possession of a weapon and resistance to authority.

Then, when trying to stop him, he resisted, tried to get back into his vehicle and the police shot him.

The incident happened when the nerves are on the surface in Minneapolis, who anxiously awaits the outcome of the trial against Derek Chauvin, one of the four police officers charged with the murder of George Floyd last year, which sparked a wave of racial protests across the country.

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