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Minnesota  police shooting of Black man sparks fresh protests.
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Minnesota police shooting of Black man sparks fresh protests.

Fresh protests broke out Tuesday night in Minneapolis despite a curfew implemented after a police officer fatally shot a young Black man when she confused her handgun with her taser, fuelling tensions in a US city already on edge because of the George Floyd murder trial. Shortly before 9pm local time, nearly two hours after the curfew went into effect, dozens of protesters continued to wave signs and chant slogans in front of the police station in Brooklyn Center, where Sunday's killing occurred. Police fired tear gas at the protesters several times and ordered them to disperse. This was the second consecutive night of protests after 20-year-old Daunte Wright was shot dead by police while driving with his girlfriend. In police body camera video released earlier Monday in B...
Gunman kills 10 in the US state of Colorado.
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Gunman kills 10 in the US state of Colorado.

A gunman has killed 10 people including a police officer off at a grocery market in the US state of Colorado. The attack in Boulder ended with police detaining an injured suspect at the King soopers market. The shooting was live streamed by the witnesses and broadcast on YouTube. Among the dead was 51-year-old Eric Talley who was the first police officer to respond to the shooting. No other details have been released about the nine other victims or motive for the attack. The grocery store is located in a busy shopping plaza in Boulder a northern central Colorado city about 30 miles away from the state capital of Denver. The supermarket attack comes less than a month a week after a mass shooting that left eight dead including Six Asian women at three spas in Atlanta.