Knajdek’s brother, Garrett Knajdek, told the Star Tribune his sister “was using her car as a street blockade” when “another vehicle” crashed into it, causing it to hit her. Knajdek was attending a protest on Sunday night to remember Winston Smith, who was shot and killed on June 3 during an attempted arrest. ![]() The garden was across from a parking ramp where Winston Smith was. Winston Boogie Smith was shot dead on June 3 by members of a US Marshals task force after pulling a gun and allegedly firing on them as they attempted to detain him for possession of a firearm. ![]() In the early hours of Monday, a 33-year-old man was booked into the Hennepin County Jail on suspicion of criminal vehicular homicide, driving after a license was canceled, and providing false information to police, Minnesota Public Radio said. Protester Deona Marie Knajdek was killed and others were injured when an allegedly drunken driver plowed into a barricade. Police said a suspect was “pulled from the car by protesters” after the crash, and subsequently taken into custody. Street art on a lamppost at the scene reads know justice, know peace. A vigil was held in Minneapolis on Monday, June 14, to remember a woman who was killed after a car drove into a group of protesters in the Uptown area of the city late on Sunday.ĭeona Marie Erickson Knajdek was the mother of two young girls and would have celebrated her 32nd birthday on Wednesday, according to Minnesota Public Radio. Feature photo: A circle of red paint surrounds dried blood from a fatal attack on protesters in Minneapolis.
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