Street Medics Patrol Brooklyn Center Protests

Street medics meet for a strategy session across the street from the Brooklyn Center Police Station during protests over the killing of Duante Wright who was shot by police. A time-honored practice developed during the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement, street medics serve to provide first-aid to injured protesters. Official medics and ambulance crews  would often refuse to enter raucous and contentious protester encounters with police and so volunteers formed groups to step in to help and even take victims to a hospital. Most contemporary injuries are caused by police tear gas or the wounds caused by rubber bullets. (Photo by Twin Cities Almanac, April 2021).