Today, Adams says not enough has changed within the Brooklyn Center Police Department. Minnesota National Guard troops and sheriff’s deputies in combat gear and with armored vehicles protect the Brooklyn Center police headquarters from protesters who slap at the gate demanding justice for Wright. Meanwhile, Whites and more affluent Black residents are fleeing to outer-suburban communities, deepening poverty in close-in suburbs such as Brooklyn Center, Orfield said. Not a single officer in the 49-member police force lives in Brooklyn Center, the mayor said at a news conference Tuesday. But “despite all these differences in the little suburban city of Brooklyn Center, we still choose to live together,” she said.

Source: Washington Post April 16, 2021 12:37 UTC