print we are the back tomorrow night at 5:00 p.m. eastern, good night. the videos are disturbing. their names are well known. traffic stops where drivers pay the ultimate price. quick shots fired subject is down too. in a system fraught with bias. with a black man four times more likely that a white man to be searched. how did we get here? are you training traffic stops or the most dangerous things that could happen? you are because they actually are. these stops can exact a huge cost on the black community. physically. what has is done to you? i can only move my arm this far for. emotionally. it is the humiliation and financially. how much money have you paid in fines and fees? over 10,000 dollars. tonight the problem and some controversial reforms. i don t believe you need somebody with the gun to pull someone over in a traffic stop. unarmed citizens during traffic stops. horrible idea. cnn special report, traffic stop dangerous encounters.
don tate right initially pulled over for a minor violation and air freshener hanging on his rearview mirror and expired tag. wright tried to fleet went officers tried to arrest him for an outstanding warrant. it ended in his death. he was shot by an officer s who she confused her gun for taser. also near minneapolis after pulling him over for a minor traffic violation, a broken tail light. his girlfriend said he reached for his identification and informed the officer he had a gun which he had a legal permit to carry. the officer claimed his hand was on the gun. don t pull it out. then there was a walter scott, pulled over for a busted taillight. he ran.
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over for expired tags and an illegal air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror. police trying to arrest wright for an outstanding warrant when they say he tried to drive off. potter pulling her gun instead of her taser. taser, taser, taser! reporter: firing a single bullet into his chest. i shot him! oh, my god! reporter: the former officer then collapsing to the ground in anguish. today, turning to wright s family and apologizing. i am so sorry that i hurt you so badly. [ cries ] my heart is breaken and devastates for all of you. reporter: wright s family, including the mother of his toddler son, describing in court their endless pain. daunte will never get to see his son s first day of preschool, elementary, high
the thing, part of why it was manslaughter was because of all the mistakes that she made that led up to his being shot in the first place, from pulling him over on having an air freshener hanging in his on his rear view window and having a registration that he had license plates he had not which everyone said was common during the pandemic, normally wouldn t get someone necessarily pulled over to all the ways in which he had a trainee and handled that trainee so even before you get to the fact thee pulled the gun and not the taser, all of these became factors of why she was charged the way she was. there s another fact that can t be missed here, the prosecutors themselves reduced the sentence they asked for, so originally they were going to ask for departure up above that seven years that you referenced