Minnesota's Twin Cities are once again the national flashpoint over race and policing
CNN
The outcry over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright has been eerily similar to protests that followed the deaths of George Floyd and other Black men killed in police encounters in and around Minneapolis.
People in Minneapolis were already bracing for potential unrest over the trial of Derek Chauvin when a police officer shot and killed Daunte Wright about 10 miles away in the suburb of Brooklyn Center. Within days it became a new national flashpoint, as America continues to reckon with racial injustice and police accountability. The outcry over Wright's fatal shooting has been eerily similar to protests that followed the deaths of Floyd and other Black men killed in police encounters in Minnesota's Twin Cities.
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