Minneapolis mourning Daunte Wright after ex-cop is convicted of murdering George Floyd Molly Hennessy-Fiske © Provided by The LA Times Lawyer Benjamin Crump hugs Katie Wright, mother of Daunte Wright, during Wednesday s viewing for her son, who was killed by a police officer in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
Kelly Bryant arrived for nephew Daunte Wright’s viewing this week to find the church guarded by a dozen members of the Minnesota Freedom Fighters, a Black militia armed with AR-15-style rifles.
It was just a day after a jury had convicted white former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin of murdering a Black man, George Floyd, 46, last May. The city was still tense as it prepared for Wright’s funeral on Thursday. The 20-year-old Black father was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop on April 11 in Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb.
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