About two dozen people, most from outside Brooklyn Center, were arrested in the Minnesota city late Wednesday as unrest continued in the wake of a fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man. Demonstrators gathered around the Brooklyn Center Police Department and erected makeshift barricades before lobbing bricks, bottles, and other projectiles at law enforcement officers. Eventually, the mix of state and local officers, bolstered by National Guard members, ordered the crowd to disperse. “We were very thankful that there was not a strong entrenchment mentality of the people that were there at the event. The group largely scattered. It was almost uneventful,” Minnesota State Patrol Col. Matt Langer told reporters in an early morning briefing on Thursday. The arrests were among those who remained and were largely for curfew violations or riot. In addition to the crowd not swelling to the size seen the night prior, Langer said “the anxiety, the tension, …
24 Arrested in 4th Night of Unrest in Minnesota City Following Police Shooting
April 15, 2021
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