Protesters, young and old alike, have marched through the city of Brooklyn Center demanding justice for Wright since the killing occurred earlier this week.
The protesting began Sunday night where protesters quarreled with police and broke into some 20 local businesses, and continued through Monday and Tuesday night.
By midnight Wednesday morning protesters had disseminated but vowed to come back night after night.
Police were on edge and held a line after threatening more of them with an arrest amid live coverage from CNN and other top national and international news networks.
Police shot off tear gas during an agitated protest on Monday night.
Tuesday night's protest was even more contentious.
Police also shot off rubber bullets, and some of them even shoved protesters.
A nightly curfew is in order and the state patrol and Minnesota National Guard remain on guard, fearing potential riots, sources say, like those that erupted locally and nationwide in the aftermath of Floyd's death in May of last year.
A strong National Guard contingent stood by early afternoon on Tuesday as protesters chanted, prayed, and sang songs, and some threw debris at police, mainly water bottles.
Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran White female cop who gunned down Wright, and her police chief, Tim Gannon, have resigned after the chief said publicly on Monday that the dash cam killing of the young Black man was, in his view, an accidental shooting death.
The former chief said the officer mistakenly pulled her gun, and not her taser, a statement that angered Black Civil Rights leaders protesters and Wright family attorneys, who joined with Floyd's family members for a press conference against the police chief.
Manslaughter charges are expected to be filed against Potter, sources said.
About 500 protesters, most of them young and many of them White, confronted police during the height of the three-night racial unrest in Brooklyn Center that is making national news as the Congressional Black Caucus and federal lawmakers like House minority whip Rep James Clyburn of South Carolina call for policing reforms.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have said said that Wright's killing is a tragedy, and called for calm, Harris saying further that wright dies unjustly at the hands of police and race race played a part in his shooting death .
Wright family attorney Benjamin Crump wants an indictment on murder and other criminal charges of the cop who killed Wright as the celebrated case is a reminder of how little the life of Black men mean to anxious cops with little training who often do as they please to Black people under the clothe of qualified immunity and the protection by a racist legal system that oppresses Black people.
Rep Clyburn wants laws amended to do away with qualified immunity, a legal defense that essentially protects law enforcement in the line of duty if they act within the scope of their authority.
Wright's shooting death, occurring simultaneous with the George Floyd murder trial a stone's throw away, has made Minneapolis and its metropolitan area, inclusive of the suburban city of Brooklyn Center, the epicenter of excessive force shooting deaths of unarmed Black men like Floyd and Wright.
A veteran cop before he was fired after killing Floyd on May 25 following an arrest for alleged forgery, Chauvin is White and faces charges of second degree intentional murder, third degree murder, and second degree manslaughter.
Three other police officers at the scene who did nothing while Chauvin held his knee on the neck of the handcuffed Floyd for more than nine minutes until he killed him were also fired and await trial on lesser charges
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