Daunte Wright Should Be Alive
“Whether it be carelessness and negligence, or a blatant modern-day lynching, the result is the same. Another Black man has died at the hands of police,"
The Minneapolis Police need to be defunded now. On 4/11, another Black man died at the hands of these police killers. Supposedly the “very senior” (over 25 years on the force) officer, Kimberly Potter (who has resigned/was arrested/ then released on bond) claimed she thought she grabbed her taser…
Daunte Wright was 20 years old.
He deserves justice- but will never get it. because he is dead.
So once again the cry is for accountability- that Potter be convicted and imprisoned. And that finally, we will begin to defund the police.
Here is more on the story:
The police officer who fatally shot a 20-year-old Black man during a traffic stop may have intended to fire a Taser, the city's police chief said Monday.
The department released dramatic bodycam footage of the incident, which has rocked the Minneapolis suburb miles from where George Floyd was killed during a police arrest last May.
Daunte Wright was shot once and died after the traffic stop Sunday, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said. The body camera footage released during a news conference shows two other officers approaching Wright's car and the officer who fired the shot standing behind them.
As the officer on the driver side of the vehicle began to handcuff Wright, he broke free, a struggle ensued, and Wright jumped back into the driver's seat. An officer threatened to tase him, shouting, "Taser!" at least three times before shooting Wright, then saying, "Oh (expletive), I just shot him."
The car drove away, traveling several blocks before hitting another vehicle.
"It is my belief that the officer had the intention to deploy their Taser but instead shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet," said Gannon, who declined to provide details about the officer other than to describe her as "very senior.''
The Hennepin Medical Examiner said Monday evening that Wright had died of a gunshot wound to the chest and classified his death as a homicide.
During the news conference, community members watching from the lobby of the Police Department headquarters expressed their anger as others protested outside. Later, more than 100 protesters chanted Wright’s name while dozens of officers in riot gear and troops guarded the police station.
In a statement, NAACP National President Derrick Johnson said Wright "should be alive today."
"Whether it be carelessness and negligence, or a blatant modern-day lynching, the result is the same. Another Black man has died at the hands of police," Johnson said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/12/daunte-wright-police-shooting-near-minneapolis-protest-what-to-know/7185768002/
