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BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) Daunte Wright’s family members joined with community leaders Thursday in calling for more serious charges against the white former police officer who fatally shot him, comparing her case to the murder charge brought against a Black officer who killed a white woman in nearby Minneapolis.
Former Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter was charged with second-degree manslaughter in Sunday’s shooting of Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop. The former police chief in Brooklyn Center, a majority nonwhite suburb, said Potter mistakenly fired her handgun when she meant to use her Taser. Both the chief and Potter resigned Tuesday.
Daunte Wright, killed by police, was known as a skinny, smiling young man who loved making people laugh and who, after becoming a father in his teens, relished the role of doting young dad, according to his family and friends.
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Beaumont Health says its Metro Detroit hospitals and staff have reached critical capacity levels amid the virus surge.
Officials announced Thursday morning that the number of COVID-19 patients at Beaumont hospitals has reached more than 800, exceeding the volume of patients seen during the state’s last virus surge in the fall. The health care system was reportedly only caring for 128 COVID-19 patients on Feb. 28.
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image caption I don t care what nobody got to say about him. He was loved.
A few years ago, high school mentor Jonathan Mason was asked by a young black pupil what he should do if he was ever pulled over by police. If they pull you over, make sure your hands are on the top of the steering wheel, don t reach for anything, Mr Mason, speaking to the Associated Press, recalls telling the teenager.
The boy, already jaded from seeing multiple cases of police brutality on the news, replied: Man, why we gotta do all that just for people not to kill us?