BY ABC News Radio | May 16, 2021
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(BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn.) Officials in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, the city where Daunte Wright was fatally shot during a traffic stop last month, passed a resolution that aims to make significant policing changes.
The Brooklyn Center City Council convened Saturday afternoon to address a proposal, called the Daunte Wright and Kobe Dimock-Heisler Community Safety & Violence Prevention Act, to create new divisions of unarmed civilian employees to handle non-moving traffic violations and respond to mental crises.
Wright, a black 20-year-old father, was shot in the chest on April 11 during a traffic stop. Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter, who is white, is charged with second-degree manslaughter in his death.
The Brooklyn Center city council voted 4-1 on Saturday for a resolution to create new divisions of unarmed civilian employees to handle non-moving traffic violations and respond to mental health crises.
The resolution also limits situations in which officers can make arrests and requires more de-escalation efforts by police before using deadly force.
A new Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention is envisioned, to oversee efforts on community health and public safety, led by a director with public health expertise.
The city attorney has said adopting the resolution isn’t a final action, but commits the city to change.
The whole world is watching Minnesota Especially Chicago, as we wait for video of a new police shooting.
By John Kass, Chicago Tribune April 14, 2021 5:38pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Chicago holds its breath, awaiting release of a police video showing 13-year-old Adam Toledo, reportedly with a gun, shot dead by a cop.
The city by the lake hasn t recovered from the waves of looting and other violence that grew out of last year s George Floyd protests. Just look at all the vacant storefronts on North Michigan Avenue, the Magnificent Mile. And now Chicago looks north to a trembling Minneapolis, a city on edge with the murder trial of Floyd s alleged killer, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, a white man. Floyd was Black.
Another police shooting video and a metropolis holds its breath
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