Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets as protests erupted in a Minneapolis suburb after 20-year-old Black man Daunte Wright was shot dead during a traffic stop reut.rs/2PVfsl3 1/5
Outside of the Brooklyn Center Police Department on Sunday night, smoke billowed as a line of police officers fired rubber bullets and chemical agents at protesters, some of whom lobbed rocks, bags of garbage and water bottles at the police 2/5 
Wright’s mother, Katie, told reporters at the scene that she had received a call from her son on Sunday afternoon telling her that police had pulled him over for having air fresheners dangling from his rear-view mirror, illegal in Minnesota 3/5
In a statement, Brooklyn Center police said officers pulled over a man for a traffic violation just before 2 p.m., and found he had an outstanding arrest warrant 4/5
As police tried to arrest him, Wright got back in the car and an officer shot him. He drove several blocks before striking another vehicle and dying at the scene reut.rs/3g0lEmx 5/5
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