daunte wright Attorney Slams Traffic Laws That Let Kim Potter Pull Over Daunte Wright Before Brooklyn Center, Minnesota officer Kim Potter drew her gun instead of her Taser and fatally shot Daunte Wright, she pulled him over for expired tags and an air freshener hanging from his vehicle’s mirror. Laws that let officers pull drivers over for hanging items have been criticized for years and subject to a long battle in appellate courts, says...
Minnesota Attorney for Daunte Wright's Son: We've Still Got a Policing Problem 2 days after a verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, family and leaders mourned at the funeral of Daunte Wright, who was shot and killed by a police officer during an April 11 traffic stop. “This country’s still got a problem that’s got to be fixed before we’re all equal,” says attorney Thomas Bowers, who represents 1-year-old Daunte Wright Jr....
daunte wright What It's Like to Live Near the Daunte Wright Protests in Minnesota Ebonie McMillan spoke to the New York Times about living near the Brooklyn Center Police Department which has seen protests after an officer shot and killed Daunte Wright. She’ll see chants and speeches during the day, but at night, cops and military are more aggressive and it’s a stressful situation for her and her children.
police Why We're Hearing More About ‘Fruitvale Station' After Daunte Wright's Death Police say the Minnesota officer who killed Daunte Wright mistook her gun for a taser. The mentions of guns being mixed up with tasers drew comparisons to the 2009 death of Oscar Grant at the hands of a Bay Area transit police officer, depicted in the film “Fruitvale Station”. David Harris, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, explains.
daunte wright After Another Black Death on Camera, Is It OK to Look Away? As a Black man, Marc Lamont Hill has had to manage trauma after seeing a week of the Derek Chauvin trial for George Floyd’s death, and a viral video of a cop pepper spraying a Black military officer. After that, Hill temporarily held off watching the video of the police killing of Daunte Wright. “How much can I take today?...
