Minnesota authorities respond to police-involved shooting
Authorities in Minnesota say they’re investigating an officer-involved shooting in the Minneapolis suburb of Burnsville
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The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension tweeted about 4 p.m. Sunday that agents were en route to the incident. They gave no other details. Police in Burnsville didn't immediately respond to a message.
The Star Tribune, citing traffic camera video, said the man jumped out of a moving white car, ran along the median and into traffic, and appeared to point a gun at a white SUV.
A snippet of the traffic camera video posted online showed the man stepping out of a slowly moving vehicle on a highway on-ramp, then stepping into traffic and appearing to try to stop the SUV, which slowed and then veered away. A police car quickly pulled up next to the man.
The shooting comes a day before closing arguments in former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin s trial in the death of George Floyd, and after a week of unrest that followed the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old Black man by a police officer in Brooklyn Center another suburb.
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