Following the death of a man shot by an officer about 16 kilometers from where George Floyd died during his arrest last May in Minneapolis, members of an enraged crowd vandalized two police vehicles on Sunday, according to a Reuters witness.
After an officer shot a man in his car in Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb, about 100 protesters protested police in riot gear, some noticeably angry and one holding a banner proclaiming "Justice for George Floyd."
According to a Reuters witness, police fired rubber bullets into the crowd, hitting at least two people and injuring at least one.
Although no tear gas was used, some in the crowd scattered when police appeared to be preparing to use it on demonstrators.
According to the witness, police cars were pelted with stones and rocks, and people were seen jumping up and down on the hoods and roofs of the vehicles on a Twitter video taken by a Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter.
According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, relatives on the scene named the deceased Daunte Wright, 20.
The Brooklyn Center Police Department said in a press release that officers pulled over the driver for a traffic violation just before 2 p.m. and discovered he had an outstanding arrest warrant.
According to experts, it was a lack of oxygen, not drugs, that killed George Floyd.
He re-entered the car as police attempted to apprehend him. According to police, one officer fired their weapon, striking the driver. The driver drove several blocks before colliding with another car and succumbing to his injuries. During the incident, both officers' body cameras were triggered, according to police.
As the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, a white former Minneapolis police officer caught on camera kneeling for nine minutes on the neck of Floyd, a 46-year-old handcuffed black man, begins its third week on Monday, tensions in the Minneapolis area are at an all-time high.
Floyd's death sparked demonstrations in the United States and around the world against police brutality and racial discrimination.
