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Demonstrators took to the streets in Minneapolis on Sunday after police shot a black man suspected of assault. Linda So reports.
Images of candles and flowers at a makeshift memorial at Tobey Park, the skate park Tyre Nichols used to spend time and of the alleged intersection where the 29-year-old was arrested before the fatal assault by five police officers in Memphis, Tennessee. The southern US city braces itself for unrest as authorities prepare to release a video depicting the fatal assault. IMAGES
Hundreds of protesters gather in the evening outside Brooklyn Center's police station, in the suburbs of Minneapolis, despite a curfew imposed after a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright. The killing of this 20-year-old Black man fueled tensions in the US city already on edge because of the George Floyd murder trial. IMAGES
Atlanta, June 14 (EFE / EPA) .- The death of another young black man, Rayshard Brooks, by shots fired by a white agent caused a deep shock in Atlanta (Georgia, USA) and caused the resignation of the Chief of Police of the city, Erika Shields.Brooks, 27, died after being shot Friday night in the parking lot of a Wendy's fast food restaurant in Atlanta, after resisting arrest and fighting with two white agents, the statement said in a statement Saturday. Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). (Camera: ERIK LESSER / JOHN AMIS)FOOTAGE SHOWS PROTESTS IN ATLANTA AFTER THE DEATH OF RAYSGARD BROOKS. SOUNDBITES: MABLE THOMAS, REPRESENTATIVE OF GEORGIA (IN ENGLISH).
Louisiana State Police confirmed that at least three police officers were killed in a shooting in Baton Rouge in Louisiana on Sunday, with State Governor John Bel Edwards calling it an "unspeakable and unjustified attack." The attack follows the police killing of Alton Sterling in the same city earlier in the month.
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