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Brooklyn Center is a first-ring suburban city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. In 1911, the area became a village formed from parts of Brooklyn Township and Crystal Lake Township. [7] In 1966, Brooklyn Center became a charter city. [8] The city has commercial and industrial development.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Minnesota.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 448 law enforcement agencies employing 9,667 sworn police officers, about 185 for each 100,000 residents.
The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) is the primary law enforcement agency in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It is also the largest police department in Minnesota. Formed in 1867, it is the second-oldest police department in Minnesota, after the Saint Paul Police Department that formed in 1854. A short-lived Board of Police ...
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Daunte Wright was an unarmed, 20-year-old biracial [43] Black man, [44] who was fatally shot by Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter during an altercation at a traffic stop on April 11, 2021, on 63 Avenue North in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. [23] [24] [3] Police said Potter had meant to use her Taser but accidentally used a handgun. [26]
Minneapolis Police Department (2 C, 11 P, 1 F) Pages in category "Municipal police departments of Minnesota" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
At the time of the shooting, Kimberly Ann Potter, a white woman from Champlin, Minnesota, was a 48-year-old police officer in the Brooklyn Center Police Department, and a mother of two sons. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] She had worked for the department since 1995, shortly after finishing at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota a year prior in 1994.
Settlers from Michigan formally organized town government in 1858 and named the area after their hometown of Brooklyn, Michigan Formerly Brooklyn Township, the township split in 1911 when the southeast community incorporated into Brooklyn Center. Brooklyn Township incorporated as the Village of Brooklyn Park in 1954, and incorporated as a city ...