Dramatic videos show law enforcement pelting crowd at Brooklyn Center with rubber bullets, flashbangs

• Videos on Twitter showed law enforcement pelting the crowd with rubber bullets and flashbangs.
• Officers in riot gear fired marker rounds at Brooklyn Center protesters from behind barricades.
• This is the third day of protests following the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright at a traffic stop.

The third day of protests in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis, saw violence escalating after nightfall, as people came out in force to protest the killing of Daunte Wright.

Dramatic videos circulating on Twitter showed members of law enforcement standing behind barricades outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department firing rounds of rubber bullets at protesters.

One officer was seen hiding within the confines of an armored vehicle, taking aim at protesters and retreating into the safety of the vehicle after firing rounds of rubber bullets.

Some officers were also seen standing behind chain-link fences, pepper-spraying those who gathered to protest the death of Daunte Wright, who was shot and killed by officer Kim Potter at a traffic stop this week.

Videos on Twitter showed copious amounts of tear gas being deployed as police lines advanced towards protesters.

Videos from people at the protests also indicated that several arrests were made near the Brooklyn Center Police Department.

According to a CNN report, Minnesota State Patrol chief Matt Langer said in a late-night news conference on Tuesday that over 60 arrests were made, mostly for "riot and other criminal behaviors."

Hennepin County Sheriff David Hutchinson said at the same news conference that he recognized the pain suffered in the community, and reiterated that Potter was "no longer a police officer" and would be "held accountable for (her) actions."

"But we can't have people hurting our communities, we can't have people hurting the men and women who are paid to protect them," Hutchinson said.

Wright's death has inflamed existing tensions in the community - his shooting took place just 10 miles away from where the ongoing murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck, is taking place.