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Second night of unrest in Minneapolis after police allegedly shot a black man

Law enforcement during unrest the day after Daunte Wright was shot and killed by a Brooklyn Center police officer. [Couretsy]

Civil unrest gripped a Minneapolis suburb for a second night on Monday after the city’s police chief said a fatal police shooting of a young Black man appeared to result from an officer mistakenly opening fire with her gun instead of a Taser during a traffic stop.

Hundreds of protesters braving a steady downpour and defying a curfew ordered by Governor Tim Walz clashed with police in riot gear as darkness fell outside police headquarters in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.

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