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Created: April 22, 2021 06:38 PM It was an emotional day for the family members of Daunte Wright as they laid their loved one to rest. Hundreds of family, friends and state and national leaders gathered to remember the 20-year-old who was shot and killed by now-former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter. It was a funeral service that honored the life of Daunte Wright. But it was clear this funeral also had a broader message. There was reference after reference to other Black people who have died during police encounters in Minnesota, naming, among them, George Floyd. They e...

( Ron Knecht) – Daunte Wright, 20, the Black father of a two-year old boy, was shot and killed in a police traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, MN Sunday.  Kimberly Potter, 48, the White officer who shot him and a 26-year veteran of the local police force, said the shooting was an accident, and she has resigned from the force. After the stop for an expired license plate, officers learned Wright had outstanding warrants, including carrying a pistol without a permit, and they started to take him into custody.  Police body-camera videos of the stop show Wright physically resisted arrest and soug...

“Holy sh*t, I just shot him,” the policewoman is heard to shout

Police said on Monday that the Minnesota officer, involved in the shooting of Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb, mistakenly opened fire with her gun instead of a taser.

Civil unrest gripped a Minneapolis suburb for a second night on Monday after the city's police chief said a fatal police shooting of a young Black man appeared to result from an officer mistakenly opening fire with her gun instead of a Taser during a traffic stop.