ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Several bank employees are held hostage in a Wells Fargo bank and police are trying to negotiate their release with the help of the FBI. The negotiators worked late into the evening – six hours after the stalemate – to free all of the hostages. At least three of the detainees … Read more
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. – The former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot and killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man while in a traffic obstruction, was charged Wednesday with second degree manslaughter, a prosecutor said. Washington District attorney Pete Orput accused Kim Potter, a 26-year-old Brooklyn Center Police Department veteran, in the Sunday shootings that … Read more
Police clashed with protesters for a second night in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, where an officer who authorities allege intended to fire a taser rather than a pistol fatally shot a black man named Duante Wright during a traffic obstruction . (April 13th)
Daunte Wright was driving with his girlfriend on Sunday afternoon when he was stopped in the Minneapolis suburbs. Police previously said they tried to arrest the driver after learning that he had a pending arrest warrant during a traffic obstruction. The man got back in his vehicle and an officer shot him dead, police said. … Read more