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[Published: Thursday April 15 2021]

 Police chief resigns amid Minneapolis protests

 
MINNEAPOLIS, USA, 15 April. - (ANA)  - The police officer who shot dead Daunte Wright has resigned after the parents of the black man said they reject the police’s claim that the killing was accidental.
 
The resignation of officer Kim Potter, a veteran with 26 years of service, “came amid a chaotic 24 hours” in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis during which police chief Tim Gannon also resigned and “the City Council fired the city manager”, transferring “control of the police department to the mayor”, The Washington Post reports.   - (ANA) -
 
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