Police shoot and kill black man again in US

Hundreds of protesters clashed with Minneapolis police after the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old Black man at a traffic stop.

Daunte Wright, 20, was shot on Sunday afternoon after being stopped for a traffic violation.

Police have not yet confirmed his identity, but Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott and members of the Wright family named him as the man who was shot.

The protests prompted the National Guard to be deployed and a curfew to be imposed. Around 20 businesses were broken into during the unrest, one local official said, while the Minneapolis Star Tribune said some had been "completely destroyed."

This incident flared tensions in the city, where former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is being tried for the murder of George Floyd. Floyd's death in May 2020 was the driving force behind the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the nation.

Brooklyn Center — where Wright was shot on Sunday afternoon — is a half-hour drive from where Chauvin's trial is underway.

Wright's mother, Katie Wright, said that her son was killed by a police officer after being pulled over for displaying an air freshener in his rearview mirror.

She pleaded in a video posted on Twitter for people to come forth with more information on the case, and for the authorities to move her son's body off the street.

"All he did was have an air freshener in the car and they told him to get out of the car. He got out of the car, and his girlfriend said they shot him," Katie Wright said.