Daunte Wright, 20, was shot and killed on Sunday during a traffic stop by a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who allegedly meant to use her Taser instead. The Brooklyn Center police chief said the department assessed that the officer, Kim Potter, mistook her firearm for a stun gun based on body camera footage and the fact that she appeared to shout “Taser!” before firing. Wright was pulled over due to expired plates and the air fresheners hanging from his rearview mirror, according to the officers. Potter has since resigned from the force and been charged with second-degree manslaughter. Advertisement At least 16 people in the United States, including Wright, have been shot by police officers who claimed to have confused their firearm with a stun gun since 2001. A 2012 article published in the Americans for Effective Law Enforcement journal lists 10 such known cases from 2001 to 2009, but one of those was in Canada. A Slate review of news archives found eight additional instances that occurred from 2014 to 2021.