Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher: BROOKLYN, MINNESOTA-Police  clashed with protesters Tuesday night in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center  and a few were arrested after refusing to disassemble during a third night of protesting in response to the police killing on Sunday afternoon of 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, Wright's killing coming as the prosecution rest in the George Floyd murder trial and the defense begins presenting its case in a courtroom in Minneapolis just 10 miles down the road.

Protesters, young and old alike, have marched  through the city demanding justice for Wright since the killing occurred.

By midnight Wednesday morning protesters, vowing to come back night after night, had left as police held a line amid live coverage from CNN and other top national  and international news networks.

Monday night police shot off tear gas during a contentious protest.

Tuesday night's protest drew about four dozen protesters, but was just as contentious.

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 on last year.

While parts of the protests that began ensuing Sunday night were peaceful protesters broke into some 20 local business and by Tuesday night the hostility between police and protesters had grown, and it was clear that protesters were angry.

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.

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 said Wright's killing is a tragedy, and he called for calm.

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.

Chauvin killed Floyd on May 25 following an arrest and faces charges of second degree intentional murder, third degree murder, and second degree manslaughter. Three other police officers at the scene who were also fired await trial on lesser charges)