周三晚上，数百人聚集在明尼苏达州布鲁克林中心的警察局外，抗议枪击致死道特·赖特连续第四个晚上。

明尼苏达州公共安全部专员约翰·哈灵顿在午夜后的新闻发布会上说:“今晚的人群继续提出一些公共安全挑战，他们拉起围栏，发射烟火，向围栏投掷砖块和瓶子。”。“我想今晚我们大约有500人在那里，一直喊到深夜。”

据哈灵顿称，布鲁克林中心没有抢劫或火灾的报道，附近的明尼阿波利斯或圣保罗也没有类似的报道。

明尼苏达州巡逻队队长马特·兰格上校说，他认为人群的规模实际上小于前一晚。

“事情开始时非常平静，”兰格告诉记者。“我可以告诉你，我们内部的讨论是，我们今晚想使用的头号工具是耐心，这是我们长期以来一直在练习的，尽管我们看到团体来了，我们看到雨伞，我们看到胶合板盾牌和临时路障，以及被带到现场的砖块和砖块。”

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执法人员在布鲁克林中心警察局总部外站岗

亨内平县治安官戴夫·哈钦森说，周三晚上“有很多”物品被扔向当局。

兰格说，在晚上10点宵禁期间，当当局发布疏散令后决定搬进来时，人群“基本上分散了”。兰格说，明尼苏达州巡逻队在执行逮捕时没有使用任何化学弹药或橡胶子弹。

他说:“我们非常感谢参加活动的人们没有强烈的根深蒂固的心态。”。"这几乎是平淡无奇的。"

根据兰格的说法，明尼苏达州巡逻队逮捕了约24人，罪名从违反宵禁到暴乱不等，比前一天晚上的72人逮捕“少得多”。

“我们只是想让人们离开。我们不想逮捕人，”他补充道。“执法的目标不是每晚都要看我们能逮捕多少人。我们的目标是通过听取我们简单的建议来恳求、询问、指导和帮助人们理解如何不被逮捕。”

据哈钦森称，周三晚上被捕的大多数人不是布鲁克林中心的居民。

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在布鲁克林中心警察局外的抗议活动中，示威者使用雨伞作为保护

尽管抗议发生在布鲁克林中心警察局总部外，但该地区是住宅区，警察局旁边有一栋公寓楼。哈灵顿对夜间抗议对附近家庭的影响表示担忧。兰格也有同感，但他表示，他本人没有与附近公寓楼的任何居民交谈。

兰格说:“我们更希望我们能把它带回一个和平集会的位置，让人们大声表达他们的意见，我们需要人们的帮助。”“专员、我和其他领导人整天都在和人们交谈，他们说，我们能做些什么来干预我们本周看到的这种行为、反应和行动的循环。所以我的期望，我的希望，我的愿望是明天比今晚更好，因为今晚比昨晚更好。”

抗议活动于周日开始警官参与的枪击事件赖特，一个20岁的黑人男子和一个2岁男孩的父亲。

赖特周日下午在明尼阿波利斯西北约10英里的布鲁克林中心开车时被警察拦住。警方说，警察最初因他汽车上过期的登记标签而将他拦下，但在交通堵塞期间确定他有一张未完成的严重轻罪逮捕令。

当警察试图拘留他时，赖特回到车里，其中一名警察——被确认为金·波特，布鲁克林中心警察局26年的老兵——开枪打了他。亨内平县法医周一发布的初步报告称，赖特死于胸部枪伤，他的死亡是他杀。

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一名示威者站在布鲁克林外，举着一个写着“停止杀害黑人”的牌子

警方表示，当波特“意外”射杀莱特时，她打算使用她的泰瑟枪而不是她的枪。在周一新闻发布会上发布的人体摄像头视频中，警方表示可以听到波特警告莱特她将部署她的泰瑟枪。

布鲁克林中心警察局局长蒂姆·甘农周一告诉记者:“然而，警官拔出了手枪，而不是泰瑟枪。”。“我认为，这名军官有意部署他们的泰瑟枪，但却用一颗子弹打死了莱特先生。在我看来，从我的观察和军官的反应和痛苦之后，这似乎是一个意外放电，导致莱特先生的悲惨死亡。”

波特和甘农都在周二提交了辞呈，立即生效。

华盛顿县检察官彼得·奥尔普特周三宣布，48岁的波特已经被捕，并被被控二级过失杀人与莱特的枪击案有关。根据明尼苏达州刑事逮捕局的说法，她已经被关进亨内平县监狱，该局正在调查这起致命的遭遇。

波特被保释，周三晚上出狱。根据监狱记录，她定于当地时间周四下午1:30出庭。

明尼苏达州二级过失杀人罪最高可判10年监禁。

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在这张未注明日期的档案照片中，可以看到道特·赖特。

根据刑事指控，波特用右手从执勤腰带上拔出她所在部门发放的9毫米格洛克手枪，并向赖特开枪。枪装在她的腰带右侧，而她的泰瑟枪在左侧。枪和泰瑟枪的枪柄或手柄都面向波特的后方。根据诉状，泰瑟枪是黄色的，握柄是黑色的，并且“设置在直拉位置，这意味着[波特]必须用左手将泰瑟枪从枪套中拔出”。

亨内平县检察官迈克·弗里曼(Mike Freeman)表示，由于去年出台了一项新政策，“以避免在处理此类案件时出现任何利益冲突”，波特的案件正由附近华盛顿县的同行处理。

民权律师本·克伦普代表莱特家族在波特被捕后发表了一份声明，似乎表明她的行为应该受到更严重的指控。

克伦普说:“虽然我们理解地区检察官正在为道特伸张正义，但任何定罪都不能让莱特一家回到他们所爱的人身边。”。“这不是意外。这是一次故意、蓄意和非法使用武力的行为。黑人开车继续导致死刑。一个26年的老兵知道泰瑟枪和火器的区别。金·波特因轻微交通违规和轻罪逮捕令处决了道特。道特的生活，就像乔治·弗洛伊德像埃里克·加纳的生活，像布莱娜·泰勒的生活，像大卫·史密斯的生活，都是有意义的。"

Hundreds protest at Brooklyn Center Police Department for 4th night after fatal shooting of Daunte Wright

Hundreds of people gathered outside the police department in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Wednesday evening as protests over the fatal shooting ofDaunte Wrightcontinued for a fourth consecutive night.

"The crowd tonight continued to present some public safety challenges as they pulled on the fence, shot pyrotechnics, lobbed bricks and bottles over the fence," Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said at a press conference just after midnight. "I think tonight we were around 500 people there, yelling and chanting late into the evening."

There were no reports of looting or fires in Brooklyn Center, nor any such reports in nearby Minneapolis or Saint Paul, according to Harrington.

Col. Matt Langer, chief of the Minnesota State Patrol, said he believes the size of the crowd was actually smaller thanthe previous night.

"Things started out very peaceful," Langer told reporters. "I can tell you that the discussion we had internally was that the number one tool we wanted to use tonight was patience, and that's what we exercised for a long period of time even though we saw groups coming and fortifying and we saw umbrellas and we saw plywood shields and makeshift barricades and blocks and bricks brought in to the scene."

Hennepin County Sheriff Dave Hutchinson said "a lot" of objects were thrown at authorities Wednesday night.

The crowd "largely scattered" around the time of the 10 p.m. curfew when authorities decided to move in after issuing dispersal orders, Langer said. The Minnesota State Patrol did not use any chemical munitions or rubber bullets when enforcing arrests, according to Langer.

"We were very thankful there was not a strong entrenchment mentality of the people that were there at the event," he said. "It was almost uneventful."

The Minnesota State Patrol arrested about 24 people on charges ranging from violating curfew to riot, which was "much lower" than the previous night's 72 arrests, according to Langer.

"We just want people to leave. We don't want to arrest people," he added. "The goal of law enforcement is not every night to see how many people we can arrest. Our goal is to plead and ask and direct and help people understand how not to get arrested by listening to our simple advice."

The majority of those arrested Wednesday night were not Brooklyn Center residents, according to Hutchinson.

Although the protests are taking place outside of the Brooklyn Center Police Department headquarters, the area is residential and there's an apartment building adjacent to the police station. Harrington expressed concern over the impact the nightly protests are having on the neighborhood's families. Langer also shared that sentiment but said he personally has not spoken to any residents of the nearby apartment building.

"Our preference is that we get this back to a position where it's a peaceful assembly of people lifting up their voice to express their opinion, and we need people's help to do that," Langer said. "The commissioner and I and other leaders have been talking to people all day long saying, what can we do to intervene on this cycle of behavior and reaction and action that we've seen this week. And so my expectation, my hope, my desire is that tomorrow is better than tonight because tonight was better than last night."

The protests began Sunday after theofficer-involved shootingof Wright, a 20-year-old Black man and father of a 2-year-old boy.

Wright was driving in Brooklyn Center, about 10 miles northwest of Minneapolis, when he was stopped by police Sunday afternoon. The officers initially pulled him over for an expired registration tag on his car but determined during the traffic stop that he had an outstanding gross misdemeanor warrant, police said.

As police tried to take him into custody, Wright got back into the car and one of the officers -- identified as Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department -- fired her gun, striking him. A preliminary report released Monday by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner said Wright died from a gunshot wound to the chest and that his death was a homicide.

Police said Potter intended to deploy her Taser instead of her gun when she "accidentally" shot Wright. In body camera video, which was released at a press conference Monday, police said Potter could be heard warning Wright that she was going to deploy her Taser.

"However, the officer drew their handgun instead of their Taser," Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon told reporters Monday. "It is my belief that the officer had the intention to deploy their Taser, but instead shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet. This appears to me, from what I viewed and the officer's reaction and distress immediately after, that this was an accidental discharge that resulted in the tragic death of Mr. Wright."

Both Potter and Gannon submitted their resignations on Tuesday, effective immediately.

Washington County Attorney Peter Orput announced Wednesday that Potter, 48, had been arrested andcharged with second-degree manslaughterin connection with Wright's shooting. She has been booked into the Hennepin County Jail, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is investigating the fatal encounter.

Potter posted bond and was released from jail Wednesday evening. She is scheduled to appear in court Thursday at 1:30 p.m. local time, according to jail records.

A second-degree manslaughter conviction in Minnesota carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

According to the criminal complaint, Potter used her right hand to pull her department-issued Glock 9mm handgun from her duty belt and shoot Wright. The gun was holstered on the right side of her belt while her Taser was on the left. The grips or handles of both the gun and Taser face Potter’s rear. The Taser is yellow with a black grip and is "set in a straight-draw position, meaning [Potter] would have to use her left hand to pull the Taser out of its holster," according to the complaint.

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Potter's case was being handled by his counterpart in nearby Washington County due to a new policy that was put in place last year "to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest in handling such cases."

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representingthe Wright family, released a statement following Potter's arrest and seemed to suggest that her actions warranted a more serious charge.

"While we appreciate that the district attorney is pursuing justice for Daunte, no conviction can give the Wright family their loved one back," Crump said. "This was no accident. This was an intentional, deliberate, and unlawful use of force. Driving while Black continues to result in a death sentence. A 26-year veteran of the force knows the difference between a taser and a firearm. Kim Potter executed Daunte for what amounts to no more than a minor traffic infraction and a misdemeanor warrant. Daunte’s life, likeGeorge Floyd’s life, like Eric Garner’s, like Breonna Taylor’s, like David Smith’s meant something."