Protesters headed out to Stillwater on Saturday afternoon to rally in front of Washington County Attorney Pete Orput’s home.
They said Orput’s filing of second-degree manslaughter charges against Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright did not go far enough.
“We watch somebody pull out a gun and recklessly fire it and hit another person and that person loses their life. But then they still get a slap on the hand,” said St. Paul School Board member and activist Chauntyll Allen.
The group stood in the street outside Orput’s home and then marched through the neighborhood.
Black Lives Matter activist Nekima Levy Armstrong told the group that Orput did come out of his house for a short conversation at one point.
In Brooklyn Center, hundreds of protesters Saturday night were joined by U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.
“I’m here from Washington, D.C., because I could not sleep, I could not rest, I could not be satisfied that another young Black man has been killed by police,” Waters told the crowd. “I’m here to say that I stand with you, I stand with his family, and I stand with everybody who cares about justice.”
When later asked what protesters should so, Waters said they must “stay on the streets,” get more active and get more confrontational. She added that she didn’t agree with the curfew in place in Brooklyn Center, which began at 11 p.m., and hoped that the protest would continue.
The protest marked the seventh night of unrest in Brooklyn Center after the fatal shooting of Wright, 20. Friday night’s protest riled media members who were detained briefly after the crowd was told to disperse. Of the 136 arrested Friday, none were journalists.
U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina Wright issued a temporary restraining order Friday prohibiting police at the protests in Brooklyn Center from arresting journalists or using force against them, including flash-bang grenades, nonlethal projectiles, pepper spray and batons, unless they know the person committed a crime.
On Saturday, the Minnesota State Patrol gave its response.
“Following feedback from media, and in light of a recent temporary restraining order (TRO) filed in federal court, MSP will not photograph journalists or their credentials. However, troopers will continue to check credentials so media will not be detained any longer than is necessary,” MSP said in a statement. “In addition, MSP will no longer include messaging at the scene advising media where they can go to safely cover events.”
Police have been directed to exempt the media from general dispersal orders and cannot arrest or threaten members of the media unless they are suspected of a separate crime. The State Patrol is prohibited from using chemical spray against someone they know is a member of the media, cannot seize their equipment or order them to stop recording.
The State Patrol is not prohibited from conducting a mass arrest, however, should that become necessary. If press are present, they may be escorted from the area.
Elsewhere, a group of University of Minnesota medical students and doctors marched to the Brooklyn Center Police Department to speak out against police using non-lethal weapons during protests.
Minnesota Operation Safety Net, a coalition of police agencies, released its own video of items found at the scene intended for use against police such as bags of rocks, paint-filled plastic eggs and paintball guns.
Most protesters who gathered Friday evening in Brooklyn Center were vocal, but peaceful. Others, most of whom arrived after 9 p.m., brought items that indicated peaceful protest was not their intent. We continue to support peaceful protest. #MNOSN pic.twitter.com/2NynFxB3iU
— Minnesota OSN (@MinnesotaOSN) April 17, 2021
This report includes information from the Associated Press.
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