Killing of Deona Marie Knajdek
That evening, demonstrators protesting the law enforcement killing of Winston Boogie Smith had blocked the intersection of West Lake Street and Girard Avenue.[2][3] At approximately 11:39 p.m. CDT, a man in a late-model Jeep Cherokee drove into the crowd at a high speed, striking a parked vehicle that had been used to block off the intersection to traffic, which then collided with protesters, killing Knajdek and injuring three others.[3][4][5] The driver, Nicholas Kraus of Saint Paul, Minnesota, was charged with second-degree intentional murder and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon in relation to the crash, after allegedly telling investigators that he had accelerated towards the crowd in an attempt to clear cars acting as barricades.[10] A series of protests and civil unrest in the U.S. city of Minneapolis began on June 3, 2021, as a reaction to the police killing of Winston Boogie Smith, a 32-year-old black American man.[2][3] At approximately 11:39 p.m. CDT, Nicholas Kraus, in a Jeep Cherokee, drove into the crowd at a high speed, striking a parked vehicle that had been used to block off the intersection to traffic, which then collided with protesters.[2][3] Kraus was treated at a hospital and then booked into a Hennepin County jail that night on probable cause of criminal vehicular homicide, driving on a cancelled license, and providing false information to police.[6] According to search warrants filed in court on June 15, 2021, officials believed that footage captured by a closed-circuit camera appeared to show that the car's brake lights did not activate prior to the crash.[23] Three hours before the June 13, 2021, vehicle attack, a demonstrator had climbed a pole and spray painted a surveillance camera located at the intersection of West Lake Street and Girard Avenue.
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