After a third night of protests marred by violence, the policewoman who shot dead a young black man near Minneapolis, in the northern United States, was arrested on Wednesday.
She will be prosecuted for manslaughter, the prosecutor in charge of the case, Pete Orput, told several American media.
Daunte Wright, 20-year-old African-American, was killed Sunday in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis, during an ordinary traffic stop.
Police called his death "accidental".
Policewoman Kim Potter, 48, including 26 in law enforcement, said she confused her service weapon with her Taser, an electric pulse pistol that is not supposed to be lethal, according to local police chief Tim Gannon.
The agent and Tim Gannon resigned on Tuesday.
Minneapolis has been under tension since the death of George Floyd, a black forty-something who succumbed to the knee of a white police officer on May 25, 2020. The emotions aroused by this tragedy have resurfaced since the opening of the trial of Agent Derek Chauvin in March.
A tense face-to-face, with more than sixty arrests, pitted protesters against police near Minneapolis Tuesday night for the third night in a row despite the curfew.
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