City and state officials emphasized that the death on Wednesday was a suicide. Tim Walz of Minnesota said at news conference on Wednesday night. Some said that the unrest there was a reaction to police brutality more broadly, not to the suicide on Wednesday. “What our city needs right now is healing,” Mr. Frey said at a news conference with the city police chief, Medaria Arradondo, on Wednesday night. On Wednesday, the police released video of the man shooting himself, saying it was important to quell rumors that he had been killed by the police.

Source: New York Times August 27, 2020 16:26 UTC