4/22/21 Another Police Officer Kills Another Black Man Near Minneapolis

with K. C. Gagne

Imagine being pulled over for a traffic stop and ending up dead from a shot to the chest. That's the story of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.

His sin was an expired registration sticker. An expired registration sticker. Is that worth a young man's life? Not a chance.

It took place in a burg called Brooklyn Center, not far from Minneapolis. Minneapolis is where Derek Chauvin is on trial for murdering George Floyd. Minneapolis is already on curfew because of the strong chance that protests will erupt.

We're told that the police officer who shot Daunte Wright (in front of Wright’s girlfriend) didn't mean to kill him. She just meant to tase him, in order to stop him from leaving when the police moved to arrest him for an outstanding warrant that they discovered during the traffic stop.

But -- well -- oops, ya know.

It's not homicide if you didn't mean it. We're told that the anguish of the police officer is real enough on the videotape. It's manslaughter, and since it's a police officer, it might not even be that much.

Now, Brooklyn Center has its own protests, and its own curfew. Like Minneapolis, which settled damage claims with Floyd's family for $27 million, Brooklyn Center will be paying for this error for many years to come.

Wright's family will be suffering it forever.

One move that we haven’t seen before after police misconduct: the Police Chief of Brooklyn Center has quickly turned over control of that town’s police force to the Mayor. And the Mayor, who is an African-American man, is speaking out.

With tensions high and rising in Minnesota, the major professional sports all cancelled games scheduled for tonight. That’s probably a wise idea - a few less crowds to get upset and show their emotions.

What do you think of this new Minneapolis situation? How could this cop have mistaken shot a person instead of using her taser? Could the timing have been any worse, right in the middle of (and that close to) the Minneapolis trial? How will people be calmed down? What do you think of the move of having the African-American Mayor take over the police force?
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