Police release body-cam footage in death of Daunte Wright; police chief says officer meant to use Taser during traffic stop
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Via: john-russell • 3 years ago • 43 commentsBy: Ryan W. Miller, Elinor Aspegren and Eric Ferkenhoff (MSN)
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BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. - Police in Minnesota on Monday released footage from the body-worn camera of the officer who fatally shot a 20-year-old Black man, and the police chief said he believed the officer intended to fire a Taser during the incident.
Protesters took to the streets today after 20 year old Daunte Wright was shot and killed during a traffic stop by members of the Brooklyn Center police.
Daunte Wright, 20, died after the traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Sunday.
Footage from the incident released during a new conference shows two other officers approaching Wright's car and the officer who fired the shot standing behind them.
As the officer on the driver side of the vehicle begins to handcuff Wright, a struggle ensues and Wright appears to reenter the driver side of the car. The officer is heard shouting, "Taser," before she shoots Wright.
"It is my belief that the officer had the intention to deploy their taser but instead shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet," Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said Monday.
Wright's death comes as Minneapolis, 10 miles south, was on edge in the middle of the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who faces murder charges in the death of George Floyd last May.
Police responded to protests Sunday with riot gear as demonstrators gathered in the city, mourning Wright's death. Video posted to Twitter showed police firing gas and a chemical agent at protesters who gathered at the police department Sunday night.
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There was a press conference by the mayor and the chief of police of Brooklyn Center. Many of the questions from the reporters or others in the audience were fairly hostile.
Meant to use a taser yet used a gun? JFC. That's MURDER!
Nope not murder Negligent Homicide or in some states it is Involuntary manslaughter.
Murder.
Sorry, there dead guy I mistook my pistol for a taser. Geez I guess I need more training. WTF!!!
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Just learned she was on the force for 25 years. Was training an officer that day. Covered up and assisted with covering up the police shooting of an autistic man two years ago.
Many police departments have a protocol that states that the taser is worn on your non dominant side and your weapon is on your dominant side.
From viewing the video it looks like the LEO is firing the taser with her right hand. She is a 26 year veteran of the force and if she is right-handed it difficult to believe that she didn't know that she had a taser when, if she was following protocol she had to draw the taser with her non-dominant hand.
A 9mm Glock, 17, 19, or 26 weighs more than a taser so that should have given the LEO a clue that she had a taser in her hand, she has been on the force for 26 years so she is very experienced. The taser in the video looks like it's black. Many police forces use a yellow taser to add another layer to avoid a mix-up with their service weapon.
The taser protocol and weapons listed above are standard issue for Brooklyn Center LEO's.
Derek Chauvin's lawyer may use this new incident to ask for a mistrial. He has already asked for the jury to be sequestered.
His lawyer and the judge must be an idiots then; the jury should have already been sequestered due to the protesters threatening their safety and the integrity of the trial.
I sure the constant protests, and threats of violence, outside the courthouse are having no influence on the jury what so ever.
From what I have read so far, I do think this will be considered an accident. Mainly, the female officer who was the shooter was described as being very upset immediately after, heard on the video as saying "I shot him" immediately after. Witnesses say she gave Wright cpr on the scene. I dont think if she intended to shoot him she would have done that. There were also social media rumors that she had committed suicide, although the chief of police says that is not true.
I don't know. How the hell could she confuse her taser and gun?
Oh.
Well... it's OK, then...
I just listened to a podcast about this woman and this town and I just don't buy it. I don't believe she could have confused her gun with her taser.
Two years ago she buried evidence in the shooting of an autistic man. Told the officers how to cover it up. She should have been fired then. She's been on the force for 25 years. No way in hell did she confuse her gun with her taser. No way.
This is a lot to unpack. First off, the traffic stop. The young man thought it was for an air freshener but the police say the tags were expired. Gotta go with the cops on this one if they had the means of determining that before the traffic stop.
There is too much not known, at least by me, to determine very much else. I think, given the shitty quality of the video presented in the article, that I cannot make a determination as to whether it was an accident or purposeful. But it seems unlikely that the warrant for his arrest could have been so serious that he in any way necessitated a taser or a gun. You've got him, his car, his license and two other police officers right there. One has to assume that with all of that, this individual would not be that hard to locate. Use restraint when using restraint....De-escalate. Damn. Again.