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The View: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Wes Moore, Hot Topics Panel discusses the accident from 26 yr veteran, head of the police union, and trainer to other officers. While it seems in bodycam that she didn’t intend to grab her gun and was stunned at what she did, how did a veteran make such a mistake, and the bigger topic is why these routine stops happen more often for poc and end up in tragedy. Meghan talks Glock vs taser; the rest is her rambling. Sara says she wasn’t ready for high stress sit...

EFEWashington DC 13 Apr 2021 The Minnesota National Guard deploys along Lake Street, the scene of much of the rioting from last year, as a curfew has been announced along with an increased police presence across the metro area after a Brooklyn Center police officer fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, USA, 12 April 2021. EFE-EPA/CRAIG LASSIG The Minnesota National Guard deploys along Lake Street, the sce...

[WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE] CNN’s Sara Sidner was confronted by a male protester live at Brooklyn Center, MN on Monday at the second night of protests following Daunte Wright’s killing by a police officer. As Sidner began the live shot discussing the tear gas police deployed, a man said, “Now you can see you’ll be twisting up the story. That’s all you’re doing.” Sidner asked a male protester, “So tell me what you think about what’s going on here.” The man said, “What I think...

Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris said the shooting death of Duante Wright in Minnesota is similar to the killing of Oscar Grant at the Fruitvale BART station 12 years ago. Both men were shot by police officers who say they meant to use their Tasers but mistakenly grabbed their guns.

Former president and first lady called for full and transparent investigation Daunte Wright, 20, was shot and killed by police on Sunday near Minneapolis  Brooklyn Center police officer claimed she thought her gun was a Taser  Shooting took place during traffic stop; Wright allegedly had expired plates  For two straight nights, protesters defied curfew and confronted police officers  Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kimberly Potter, 48, was cop who shot Wright Wrights parents said that they c...

Minneapolis police officer Kimberly Potter resigned from teh Brooklyn Police Center on Tuesday. It comes two days after she shot dead Duante Wright, 20, during a traffic stop.

Barry Brodd, a former cop and use-of-force expert, testified for Derek Chauvins defense on Tuesday  Brodd said in his view Chauvin did not use deadly force against George Floyd  He said Chauvins holding Floyd on the pavement, face down, for nine minutes and 29 seconds was not a use of force but a control technique  It doesnt hurt, Brodd said of the restraint. Its safe for the officer, safe for the suspect   But on cross examination Brodd conceded that the restraint could in fact hurt and c...

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Tensions, already stretched thin due to the ongoing murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, boiled over near Minneapolis on Sunday after police shot and killed a 20-year-old man at a traffic stop, prompting unrest overnight.

Crowds of people gathered on Sunday in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota near Minneapolis after Duante Wright, 20, was fatally shot by police.