Nicole Kirkwood said that circumstances of the shooting and a motive were still under investigation.ĭetroit Police Chief James Craig said that the "vast majority" of protesters were peaceful, but several police vehicles were damaged and a police command officer was transported to a hospital after being hit with a rock. The victim was taken to a hospital where he died from his injuries. Police said that after the shooting, the suspect fled. Police Sgt. when a suspect in a gray Dodge Durango "pulled up to the location and fired shots into the crowd," police said in a statement.
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Several storefront windows were broken, small fires set throughout downtown, and a bank was in flames by 11 o’clock.Īs midnight approached, Oakland’s central Broadway corridor was still packed with protesters, but shop owners had begun venturing into the streets to pull aside improvised barricades left behind by protesters.Ī 19-year-old man was fatally shot amid protests Friday night in Detroit, and authorities are looking for a suspect, police said. The long history of protest action here meant that protesters urged each other to walk while fleeing to avoid a stampede, and many carried jugs of milk to pour into eyes burning from the gas. But by 9 p.m., protesters began throwing bottles and fireworks, and police responded with tear gas, fired in high arcs over the crowd and pushing them back several blocks.
Police in Oakland stayed in place for most of the evening, establishing a cordon around the downtown Oakland precinct. The city’s troubled relationship with its own police department - OPD is in its 17th year under a federal consent decree for civil rights violations - was powerfully expressed Friday night. Oakland protesters carried signs for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tamir Rice, but another name was everywhere: Oscar Grant, killed by BART police on New Year’s Day 2009.
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