Law enforcement in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, arrested at least 24 people during a fourth night of protests. Hundreds of activists, including Black Lives Matter and Antifa, gathered outside the police headquarters and remained after unlawful assembly and curfew declarations.
For the fourth night in a row, protesters marched to the Brooklyn Center Police Department building over the shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Officials declared the demonstration an unlawful assembly about an hour before the 10 p.m. curfew went into effect, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
A black man tried discouraging #antifa from being violent at the Brooklyn Center, Minn. protest (they’re throwing projectiles). He stands directly in front of them. Powerful video by @BGOnTheScene #DaunteWright #BLM pic.twitter.com/lOQCrOYL4g
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 15, 2021
While the local newspaper called the protest “calmer,” many threw projectiles at the State Police, Hennepin County Sheriff’s deputies, and National Guard troops put in place to protect the police headquarters. The projectiles included water bottles, milk jugs, bricks, rocks, and fireworks.
NEW A protester during protest in Brooklyn Center repeated exactly what Trump said during his presidency in a press talk about how protesters use cans of soup against cops. “Soup for my family” pic.twitter.com/P8flE023Sb
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) April 15, 2021
Earlier in the evening, protesters violently attacked and attempted to intimidate national news media who came to cover the demonstration, Breitbart News reported. At one point, someone threw a filled water bottle at a CNN news crew — knocking the man to the ground after the bottle struck him in the head. The protesters mocked the man after he fell to the ground.
Protesters throw a water bottle at a CNN crew member and hit him square on the head. They mock him when he falls down. pic.twitter.com/cBfRN9DJOj
— Nic Rowan (@NicXTempore) April 15, 2021
Along the front lines of the protest, marchers erected plywood battlements to provide shielding against crowd-control munitions from law enforcement.
— Nic Rowan (@NicXTempore) April 15, 2021
Despite the 10 p.m. curfew, protesters remained on the streets into the early morning hours of Thursday.
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