A young black man named Duante Wright was shot and killed by police in Minnesota this week. He was pulled over for expired tags on his vehicle when police discovered he had an outstanding warrant.
Wright resisted arrest and attempted to escape. A female officer who claims she meant to tase him ended up shooting him instead. Such mistakes, while not common, apparently have happened numerous times in the past:
While not common, instances of police officers accidentally firing a pistol when they meant to draw their Tasers, as the police in a Minneapolis suburb said happened on Sunday when an officer shot and killed Daunte Wright, are not entirely unusual, either….Ed Obayashi, a California-based expert on the use of force by law enforcement, said that with appropriate training, it should be difficult for officers to confuse a gun with a Taser. “But unfortunately it does happen — this is not the first time and it won’t be the last,” he said, referring to the fatal shooting of Mr. Wright.In a 2012 article published in the law journal Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, Capt. Greg Meyer, a retired Los Angeles Police Academy instructor, documented nine similar instances between 2001 and 2009.
New footage of the shooting has been released. Caution, this is graphic:
Now Minnesota has become the scene of a second round of riots in under a year. The media is back to using the word “protests.”
NBC News reports:
Minnesota police shooting of Daunte Wright sparks protestsPolice shot and killed a Black man Sunday during a stop for a traffic violation, sparking protests and unrest in a suburb just miles from where George Floyd was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis in May.Relatives and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz identified the man as Daunte Wright, 20.The state mobilized the National Guard after crowds gathered in front of the Brooklyn Center Police Department on Sunday evening, and a curfew was ordered through Monday morning.Rocks and other objects were thrown at the police building, and there were reports that shots were fired in the area, state Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said in a news conference. Police said they had heard reports that a crowd of 100 to 200 people was marching toward the police department.
If you go to Google News right now and search the term “riot,” the only thing that comes up is January 6th. To find news stories about what’s unfolding in Minnesota, you must search the term “protests.”
When the police chief used the word “riots,” journalists scolded him. They insisted this was not a riot. Watch:
Here are some recent clips from the “protest.”
This August 2020 tweet from Biden sure hasn’t aged well:
Featured image via YouTube.
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