What kind of idiot loots at the dollar store?
Retailers in Brooklyn Center, Minn., a city of about 30,000 people on the northwest border of Minneapolis, were targeted after protests and riots started.
During a briefing Monday, Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington addressed the civil unrest in the area, specifically the group of people that targeted the Shingle Creek mall.
"We have reports of approximately 20 businesses that were broken," Harrington said.
Officers stopped a motorist shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday for an unspecified traffic violation, police said in a statement. Authorities planned to provide an update later Monday.
Katie Wright said her son called her as he was getting pulled over.
"All he did was have air fresheners in the car, and they told him to get out of the car," Wright said. During the call, she said she heard scuffling and then someone saying, "Daunte, don’t run" before the call ended. When she called back, her son’s girlfriend answered and said he had been shot.
People vandalize and loot a Dollar Tree store during a protest in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, U.S., on Monday, April 12, 2021. A Black man, identified by family as 20-year-old Daunte Wright, died after being shot by police in a Minneapolis suburb during a traffic stop and crashing his car several blocks away, reported the Associated Press. Photographer: Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg via Getty Images