New details about the killing of a young black American by a policeman's bullet

Police in the US state of Minnesota announced new details about the killing of a black youth, on Sunday, by police bullets, near Minneapolis, which sparked protests against the behavior of the police.

Brooklyn Central Police Chief Tim Ganon said on Monday that a policeman who was on the scene wanted to fire a Taser gun at him but fired instead, and the camera recordings attached to his clothes indicate that he made the mistake.

Dante Wright, 20, was shot at just 16 km from the site where the black American, George Floyd, was killed last May.

Wright's death sparked protests outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department building on Sunday night, while riot officers fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, according to Reuters.

The mother of the murdered youth told reporters at the scene that she received a call from her son, on Sunday afternoon, to tell her that police had stopped him because of the air fresheners hanging from his rearview mirror, which is illegal in Minnesota. 

She added that she was hearing the police asking her son to get out of the car, and she heard a quarrel, and heard the police officers say, "Dawont don't run! The call ended, and she called him again, but it was his girlfriend who answered and said that he is now dead in the driver's seat."

According to CNN, the police tried to arrest Wright after discovering that he had an arrest warrant, but he returned to his car.

The video, which was installed by the police, showed that he got out of his car, then returned to it, and the police say that the video shows that he was trying to leave, prompting the officer to intervene, and he heard shouting: "Thunderbolt! Thunderbolt! Thunderbolt!"

But then he was shot, not the thunderbolt, and then he said, "Oh my God ... I shot him."

The police chief said that the shooting appeared to be "accidental and led to his tragic death," and expressed sympathy for his family.

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