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Experts explain: How does an officer use a gun instead of a Taser? Josh Cascio reports While extremely rare, incidents like this one have happened before.  "If you look at a lot of SWAT-operator folks, they normally wear their Taser on their thighs and firearm on their hip.  While you’re still using muscle memory, youre going to reach deeper down to grab the Taser than higher up," explained Peter Massey, a teacher in the criminology department at USF St. Petersburg.  Daunte Wright police s...

Protests over Duante Wright's killing are taking place in North Texas as well.

According to her former police chief, 26-year veteran police officer Kim Potter accidentally fired her gun, instead of a taser, killing Daunte Wright.

Daybreak Today Wednesday Morning Brief City adjusts after J&J pause, CDC to look into blood clot issues, new deadline set on Afghanistan troop withdrawal KCBDs Daybreak Today - April 14 By Michael Cantu | April 14, 2021 at 6:01 AM CDT - Updated April 14 at 7:08 AM On Daybreak Today, The city says there are plenty of Moderna vaccines available this week. Kase Wilbank’s spoke with those at the Lubbock Health Department to get some insight into what people can now expect: Six women, betwe...

Is It Time to End Policing? Share Is it time to end policing—as was recently insisted by a member of the majority party in the United States House of Representatives? In response to the shooting death of Duante Wright, Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan tweeted in part, “No more policing, incarceration, and militarization. It can’t be reformed,” equating policing with “government funded murder.” In her opinion, the shooting was not an accident because “Policing in our count...

House Rep. Cori Bush says white cop who shot dead 20-year-old Daunte Wright wouldve known the difference between her Taser and gun if he wasnt a black boy after fellow squad members Rashida Tlaib and AOC call for police to be abolished Cori Bush slammed claim more training would have prevented Sundays fatal shooting of Daunte Wright  Bush, Democratic congresswoman from St. Louis, scoffed at claim that cop mistook her gun for a Taser Squad members AOC and Rashida Tlaib have also spoken out, say...

Minnesota Police Shooting Protests Continue for 3rd Night Minnesota Police Shooting Protests Continue for 3rd Night 14 April 2021 23:51 Protests continued for a third night in Brooklyn Center in the US state of Minnesota following the death of Duante Wright, a Black man who was shot by a white police officer during a traffic stop. RECOMMENDED VIDEO

NYPD Commissioner Shea said his officers are trained to not “cross draw” or using their dominant hand to grab their taser, to prevent any confusion with their handgun.

Minnesota protests continue over police killing of Black man Al Jazeera English © Demonstrators take cover from crowd-dispersal munitions from police outside the Brooklyn Center Poli... Demonstrators take cover from crowd-dispersal munitions from police outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department on Tuesday [John Minchillo/AP] Protests continued for a third night in Brooklyn Center in the US state of Minnesota following the death of Duante Wright, a Black man who was shot b...

Minnesota cop Kim Potter, who fatally shot Daunte Wright, charged with manslaughter KATE FELDMAN Kim Potter, the Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer who resigned after she fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright, has been formally charged with second-degree manslaughter, the Washington County Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Potter was taken into custody around 11:30 a.m. local time Wednesday by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. She is being held without b...