‘It’s always like this’: Brooklyn Center residents describe history of racial targeting

Posted on AllSides April 14th, 2021
From The Left

Outraged and spiritually exhausted residents of Brooklyn Center on the outskirts of Minneapolis have condemned what they described as a long track record of racial targeting by police in the small city.

Two days after a white officer shot dead Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop on Sunday, protests continued and people left flowers at the side of the road, in a growing makeshift memorial where he was killed.

People sobbed in the cold gusts and snow flurries, struggling to light candles that now spell out...

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/14/brooklyn-center-daunte-wright-killing-police-racial-targeting

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