Daunte Wright s death prompts discussion over traffic stops in Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Daunte Wright, who was shot and killed during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, is prompting conversation from leaders in the Twin Cities metro about traffic stops in general.
Thursday night, the issue was one of the main topics discussed at the Minneapolis Police Conduct Oversight Commission meeting.
Daunte Wright’s death prompts discussion over traffic stops in Minneapolis
Daunte Wright, who was shot and killed during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, is prompting conversation from leaders in the Twin Cities metro about traffic stops in general.
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Thu, 04/22/2021 - 09:04
PASQUOTANK DEPUTY KILLS ANDREW BROWN WHILE SERVING WARRANT: Tensions were high in a small North Carolina city on Wednesday after a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a Black man. Deputies were executing a search warrant Wednesday morning in Elizabeth City when Andrew Brown Jr. was shot, the Pasquotank County sheriff said. The sheriff, Tommy Wooten, offered few other details about what happened and said the State Bureau of Investigation is taking the lead. Brown was 42 years old, online records show. He was a father of 10, WAVY reported. Brown’s son, Khalil Ferebee, said his father didn’t own guns, according to the The Virginian-Pilot. “He wasn’t a violent person,” Daniel Bowser, who said he and Brown were friends for nearly 30 years, told The News & Observer. “He didn’t mess with guns, he didn’t tote no guns.
Synopsis
The fatal shooting Sunday took place in a region already at the center of a national reckoning over police officers’ use of force against Black people. As the investigation into Wright’s death in Brooklyn Center was beginning Monday, prosecutors in a courtroom less than 10 miles away completed the questioning of their witnesses in the trial of Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd in May.
AFP
The officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop near Minneapolis mistakenly confused her gun for her Taser, police officials said Monday, quickly releasing video as they tried to ease tensions in a state on edge over the Derek Chauvin trial.