Officer accidentally shot, killed driver during traffic stop: Police chief
Chief calls police officer’s killing of Black man ‘accidental’
Replay Video UP NEXT A police officer who shot and killed a driver during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Sunday afternoon meant to deploy her Taser instead of her gun, authorities said. At a press conference Monday, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said he believes the female officer identified by authorities as Kim Potter intended to deploy her stun gun when she accidentally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright. A preliminary report issued by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner on Monday evening said that Wright s death was a homicide, as he died from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Minnesota city on edge after man shot in police traffic stop dies
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Minnesota Crowds of mourners and protesters gathered in a Minnesota city where the family of a 20-year-old man said he was shot by police before getting back into his car and driving away, then crashing several blocks away.
The family of Daunte Wright said he was later pronounced dead, sparking protests in the city of Brooklyn Center into the early hours of Monday morning.
Protesters jump on police vehicles near the site of a shooting involving a police officer in the city of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.
Death of man shot during Minnesota traffic stop sparks unrest
Mom speaks out after 20-year-old son shot by Minn. police during traffic stop By Associated Press | April 11, 2021 at 11:09 PM CDT - Updated April 12 at 6:42 AM
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) â Crowds of mourners and protesters gathered in a Minneapolis suburb where the family of a 20-year-old man said he died after being shot by police before getting back into his car and driving away, then crashing several blocks away. The family of Daunte Wright said he was later pronounced dead.
The death sparked protests in Brooklyn Center into the early hours of Monday morning, and stores were broken into, as Minneapolis was already on edge and midway through the trial of the first of four police officers in George Floydâs death. Brooklyn Center is a city of about 30,000 people located on the northwest border of Minneapolis.