Brooklyn Center

The funeral service for Daunte Wright will be held Thursday in Minneapolis. Wright was shot and killed by a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop on April 11.

Following a peaceful night of celebration in Minneapolis after the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, Operation Safety Net announced it will begin reducing law enforcement presence in the Twin Cities metro.

A funeral service will be held Thursday in Minneapolis for Daunte Wright, who was shot and killed by a Brooklyn Center police officer during a traffic stop. 

Ben Crump, the attorney representing the family of Daunte Wright, confirmed Wright's funeral will be held next week at a church in Minneapolis.

After a week of clashes with police and some unrest, things at the Brooklyn Center Police Department were quieter on Sunday, as demonstrators marked one week since Daunte Wright was killed in a police shooting.

At least 52 people were booked late Friday night into early Saturday morning on probable cause riot charges at the Hennepin County Jail while 136 in total were arrested, as the sixth night of protests turned violent in Brooklyn Center.

The seventh night of protests in Brooklyn Center following the death of Daunte Wright has remained calm through the evening and as a late-night curfew went into effect.

Saturday, after another clash between protesters and police in Brooklyn Center, a group of medical students and doctors from the University of Minnesota rallied against the use of less-lethal weapons on protesters.

Reverend Jesse Jackson joined protesters in Brooklyn Center rallying on Saturday following the death of Daunte Wright.

Brooklyn Center issued an emergency curfew on Friday after protests escalated, leading police to disperse a crowd outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department.

Chyna Whitaker, the mother of Daunte Wright's son, expressed her grief over losing her son's father to a deadly police shooting during a press conference Friday.

Union activists taunted Minnesota National Guard soldiers this week and Democratic lawmakers tried to ban the use of tear gas as a crowd control tactic, showing the escalating tension between Gov. Tim Walz and his party's left flank.

For a fifth consecutive night, demonstrators gathered outside the Brooklyn Center to protest the deadly police shooting of Daunte Wright.