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Katie Wright, center right, the mother of Daunte Wright, is embraced by George Floyd s girlfriend, Courteney Ross, center left, before a news conference outside the Hennepin County Government Center on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in Minneapolis. (Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via AP) April 14, 2021 - 9:18 PM
MINNEAPOLIS - A few years ago, Daunte Wright was talking to a high school mentor about what to do if he was pulled over by police.
âMake sure your hands are on top of the steering wheel, donât reach for anything,â Jonathan Mason told him, given the long history of Black men shot by police during traffic stops.
Friends and family remember Daunte Wright, known as jokester, young dad
By TIM SULLIVAN and DENISE LAVOIE The Associated Press,Updated April 15, 2021, 12:28 a.m.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â A few years ago, Daunte Wright was talking to a high school mentor about what to do if he was pulled over by police.
âMake sure your hands are on top of the steering wheel, donât reach for anything,â Jonathan Mason told him, given the long history of Black men shot by police during traffic stops.
âHe would always say, âMan, why we gotta do all that just for people not to kill us? â Mason recalled this week, days after the 20-year-old Wright was killed by a police officer in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. Heâd been pulled over for a minor traffic violation on a Sunday afternoon.
Daunte Wright, slain by police, was known as jokester
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By Tim Sullivan and Denise Lavoie | The Associated Press
A few years ago, Daunte Wright was talking to a high school mentor about what to do if he was pulled over by police.
“Make sure your hands are on top of the steering wheel, don’t reach for anything,” Jonathan Mason told him, given the long history of Black men shot by police during traffic stops.
“He would always say, ‘Man, why we gotta do all that just for people not to kill us?’” Mason recalled this week, days after the 20-year-old Wright was killed by a police officer in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. He’d been pulled over for a minor traffic violation on a Sunday afternoon.
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Daunte Wright became a father while he was still a teenager and seemed to relish the role of a doting young dad, his family and friends said.
A family photo shows a beaming Wright holding his son, Daunte Jr., at his first birthday party. Another shows Wright wearing a COVID-19 face mask and his son wearing a bib with the inscription, “ALWAYS HUNGRY.”
Wright, 20, was fatally shot Sunday by a police officer in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. As protesters and civil rights advocates called for justice and police accountability over his death, his family asked people also to remember his life.
Daunte Wright, slain by police, known as jokester, young dad
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FILE - This photo provided by Ben Crump Law, PLLC. shows Daunte Wright and his son, Daunte Jr., at his first birthday party. Wright, 20, was killed during a traffic stop bya white suburban Minneapolis police officer on Sunday, April 11, 2021. (Ben Crump Law, PLLC. via AP)
MINNEAPOLIS – A few years ago, Daunte Wright was talking to a high school mentor about what to do if he was pulled over by police.
“Make sure your hands are on top of the steering wheel, don’t reach for anything,” Jonathan Mason told him, given the long history of Black men shot by police during traffic stops.