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Views: I know Kim Potter said the words "Taser Taser Taser" before she shot her gun and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright. But you will never convince me that something in that veteran cop didn't know exactly what she reached for when she pulled that gun from its holster. Now his family is grieving, because racist police saw fit to pull him over for expired tags, saw an air freshener, attempted to arrest him for an outstanding warrant, and (as so many cops do) reflexively saw Black people as both more dangerous and more dispensable than white people. This all happened just miles down the road...

'Another moment like this': Al Sharpton to deliver eulogy at funeral for Daunte Wright, 20-year-old Black father shot by police Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY Hundreds mourning at Daunte Wright's public viewing, another sad day for Minneapolis Replay Video UP NEXT Family and friends of Daunte Wright will gather Thursday at a funeral in Minneapolis to honor the life of the 20-year-old Black father fatally shot during a traffic stop by a veteran Minnesota police officer. Civil rights leader Al Sharpton will give a eulogy at the service 11 days after Wright's death in nearby Brook...

© Getty Images The aunt of Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by a police officer at a traffic stop in Minnesota earlier this month, called the man a “shining light” and asked, “Why do we have to keep burying our babies?” in an emotional new interview. “Daunte was a shining light. He was a shining light. He was loved. He was a man in the making. He was somebody. He was human. He died ... we can’t understand why. Why? Why did he have to die the way that he died? My family have to still come to grips with that,” Naisha Wright told CNN on Thursday ahe...

'He was loved by so many': Daunte Wright, 20-year-old Black dad shot by police, remembered at a funeral packed with mourners Ryan W. Miller, N'dea Yancey-Bragg and Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY Hundreds mourning at Daunte Wright's public viewing, another sad day for Minneapolis Replay Video MINNEAPOLIS – Family and friends of Daunte Wright exalted the 20-year-old Black father fatally shot during a traffic stop by a veteran Minnesota police officer at a funeral service in Minneapolis on Thursday. "He was a brother, a jokester," Wright's mother, Katie, said as she fought back tea...

'He was loved by so many': Daunte Wright, 20-year-old Black dad shot by police, remembered at a funeral packed with mourners Ryan W. Miller, N'dea Yancey-Bragg and Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY Hundreds mourning at Daunte Wright's public viewing, another sad day for Minneapolis Replay Video MINNEAPOLIS – Family and friends of Daunte Wright exalted the 20-year-old Black father fatally shot during a traffic stop by a veteran Minnesota police officer at a funeral service in Minneapolis on Thursday. "He was a brother, a jokester," Wright's mother, Katie, said as she fought back tea...