Somber vigil for Daunte Wright in Manchester draws 200 people
By Nancy West - InDepthNH | Apr 19, 2021
Black Lives Matter held a gathering in Derryfield Park in Manchester Saturday night. (Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS)
About 200 people gathered in Derryfield Park Saturday night to remember Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old Black man who was shot to death by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minn., on April 11.
The tone for the candlelight vigil was somber and sometimes tearful, with discussion focusing more on abolishing police rather than police reform.
Jordan Thompson spoke emotionally about working as an organizer of the Black Lives Matter movement in Nashua and workers in other chapters in Manchester and on the Seacoast, and how it feels to wake up to the news of yet another person of color being shot by police.