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May 15, 2021
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (FOX 9) After the deadly shooting of Daunte Wright last month in Brooklyn Center, the city council has approved a number of policing changes as part of a resolution proposed last week by the mayor.
The new resolution creates a new public safety department with unarmed civilian traffic enforcement and a mental health response division.
The act follows the deadly shooting of Wright by a Brooklyn Center police officer just over a month ago. During the stop, officers attempted to arrest Wright on a warrant but a struggle ensued. As Wright tried to drive away in his vehicle, Officer Kim Potter apparently attempted to use her Taser gun but instead grabbed her service weapon, shooting Wright once.
Target: Mike Elliott, Mayor of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
Goal: Applaud city council for passing resolution calling for resignation of police chief after the shooting of Daunte Wright.
Tim Gannon resigned as Police Chief of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota in the wake of the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by an officer during a traffic stop. Gannon initially stated that he had no plans to give in to calls for his resignation. The City Council expressed support of relieving Gannon of his duties after Gannon was criticized for how the police department has dealt with the death of Daunte Wright and the protests that erupted as a result of Wright’s death.
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Mayor Mike Elliott
“But I want to say that our hearts are aching right now. We are in pain right now, and we recognize that this couldn’t have happened at a worst time. We recognize that this is happening at a time when our community, when all of America; indeed, all of the world is watching our community. That we are all collectively devastated. And we have been for over a year now, by the killing of George Floyd. And that we continue to be distressed as we go through the Derek Chauvin trial. So having a police-involved shooting happen in our community and killing a young man is heartbreaking and just unfathomable.”
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The country and observers from around the world are on edge as closing arguments wrap up in the case of Derek Chauvin, the white police officer charged in the death of George Floyd, a Black man, in May last year.
The 12 jurors deliberating the case against Chauvin will have three counts to consider. He s been charged with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Meanwhile, some 10 miles north of Minneapolis, protesters gathered again on Sunday outside a police station in the suburb of Brooklyn Center, where another white police officer shot and killed another Black man, 20-year-old Daunte Wright, just over a week ago.
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