Latest: Klobuchar seeks true justice for Black Americans
April 22, 2021
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1of23Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., speaks during funeral services of Daunte Wright at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Wright, 20, was fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer during a traffic stop.John Minchillo/APShow MoreShow Less
2of23Rev. Al Sharpton eulogies Daunte Wright during funeral services at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Wright, 20, was fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer during a traffic stop.John Minchillo/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of23Rev. Al Sharpton eulogies Daunte Wright during funeral services at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Wright, 20, was fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer during a traffic stop.John Minchillo/APShow MoreShow Less
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Damik Bryant touches the casket of his brother Daunte Wright as its wheeled out following funeral services at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Wright, 20, was fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer during a traffic stop. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, Pool) April 22, 2021 - 2:31 PM
MINNEAPOLIS - Daunte Wright, the young Black man shot by an officer during a traffic stop in suburban Minneapolis, was not âjust some kid with an air freshener,â but a âprinceâ whose life ended too soon at the hands of police, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Thursday during an emotional funeral.
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U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is calling for legislative change to ensure “true justice” following the police killings of Daunte Wright, George Floyd and more.
Speaking at Wright’s funeral Thursday, Klobuchar, of Minnesota, said “true justice is not done as long as Black Americans are killed by law enforcement at more than twice the rate of white Americans.”
Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was fatally shot April 11 by a white police officer during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb.
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Klobuchar called for passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which seeks to ban chokeholds and “qualified immunity” for law enforcement at the federal level.
Latest: Klobuchar seeks true justice for Black Americans
April 22, 2021
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1of23Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., speaks during funeral services of Daunte Wright at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Wright, 20, was fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer during a traffic stop.John Minchillo/APShow MoreShow Less
2of23Rev. Al Sharpton eulogies Daunte Wright during funeral services at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Wright, 20, was fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer during a traffic stop.John Minchillo/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of23Rev. Al Sharpton eulogies Daunte Wright during funeral services at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Wright, 20, was fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer during a traffic stop.John Minchillo/APShow MoreShow Less
Updated Sharpton decries ‘stench of racism’ in Daunte Wright’s death
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Daunte Wright, the young Black man shot by an officer during a traffic stop in suburban Minneapolis, was not “just some kid with an air freshener,” but a “prince” whose life ended too soon at the hands of police, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Thursday during an emotional funeral.
Hundreds of people wearing COVID-19 masks packed into Shiloh Temple International Ministries to remember Wright, a 20-year-old father of one who was shot by a white police officer on April 11 in the small city of Brooklyn Center. The funeral was held just two days after former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted in the death of George Floyd and amid a national reckoning on racism and policing.