BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. \u2014 A fourth night of protests was underway in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and around the nation Wednesday over the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright after a police officer fatally shot him.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Center announced a curfew of 10 p.m. Wednesday.\u00a0Mayor Mike Elliott\u00a0urged people to protest without violence, saying \u201cyour voices have been heard” earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
A crowd of a few hundred demonstrators had gathered outside the Brooklyn Center police headquarters for a\u00a0tense night. One video showed one protester carrying the head of a fake pig on a pole near a fence outside the heavily guarded station as\u00a0police monitored\u00a0the crowd from the structure\u2019s rooftop.<\/p>\n
“The Sheriff’s Office has declared this assembly unlawful,” police said over the loudspeaker just after 9 p.m., as the crowd booed and threw water bottles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“You are hereby ordered to immediately disperse … if you do not cease your unlawful behavior and disperse,\u00a0you will be arrested,” said the announcement as police fired rubber bullets and flashbangs into the crowd.<\/p>\n
Several media crews were stopped and at least one member of the press was reportedly arrested.<\/p>\n
Earlier, police fired rubber bullets into the crowd. Casey Clements, 30, was shot in the waist while by the fence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019ll add to the zip-tie bruises I\u00a0got the other night,” he told\u00a0USA TODAY as he was tended to by a medic, referring to his arrest Monday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He added that he\u2019s a student who is protesting \u201cbecause I\u00a0feel like I\u00a0need to protect the people here,” he said, gesturing to the other protesters.<\/p>\n
Outside the home of\u00a0former police officer Kim Potter\u00a0in Champlin, Minnesota, north of Brooklyn Center, concrete barricades and tall metal fencing had been set up and police cars were in the driveway. After George Floyd\u2019s death last year, protesters demonstrated several times at the home of Derek Chauvin, the ex-Minneapolis officer now on trial in Floyd\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
Potter, the officer who fatally shot Wright at a traffic stop in a Minneapolis\u00a0suburb, is a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department. She was arrested Wednesday\u00a0and\u00a0charged with second-degree manslaughter,\u00a0officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kim Potter faces prison time,<\/strong>\u00a0fine if convicted of second-degree manslaughter in shooting death of Daunte Wright<\/span><\/p>\n ‘Another senseless tragedy’: <\/strong>Barack and Michelle Obama, Beyonc\u00e9, more speak out on Daunte Wright<\/span><\/p>\n The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Potter was arrested Wednesday morning.\u00a0Hours later, she posted $100,000 bond\u00a0and was released from the Hennepin County jail, online records showed.<\/p>\n Potter is\u00a0scheduled for an initial court appearance on Thursday afternoon. If found guilty, she faces up to 10 years in prison and a\u00a0$20,000 fine,\u00a0according to Minnesota law.<\/p>\n The killing set off days of protests and unrest in the little city, as civil rights activists and thousands of demonstrators demanded justice and police accountability. <\/p>\n On Wednesday, some of his extended family came to the intersection where he was shot, carefully rearranging the lawn of flowers that had been left there in his memory or sobbing as they sat in the grass.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHe had a 2-year-old son that\u2019s not going to be able to play basketball with him. He had sisters and brothers that he loved so much,\u201d his mother, Katie Wright, said Tuesday on \u201cGood Morning America.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHis smile \u2013 oh, Lord \u2013 the most beautiful smile,\u2019\u2019 said his aunt, Naisha Wright, calling him \u201ca lovable young man.\u201d<\/p>\n In Los Angeles Wednesday night, a small vigil was held in front of police department headquarters, video on Twitter showed. Protesters in Columbus, Ohio, conducted a “sit-in” in front of police department headquarters,\u00a0according to a video on Twitter.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, a group of protesters forced their way into police headquarters in Columbus,\u00a0through a set of double doors that had been secured on the interior with handcuffs. A photograph of the handcuffs shows evidence of force being used to open them.<\/p>\n An\u00a0Ohio State University student from northwestern Ohio was arrested for hitting a police sergeant\u00a0with a wooden club. The protest was peaceful up until then, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n