Courteney Ross, George Floyd‘s girlfriend, said she was familiar with Daunte Wright, who was fatally shot by Minnesota police over the weekend. Ross told The Washington Post that Wright was a student while she was a dean at Edison High School. She described him as “a silly boy, as goofy as can be,” who required […]
The officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright in a Minnesota suburb on Sunday has resigned. Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon who said in a press conference Monday that the shooting was accidental, also announced his resignation. On Tuesday, Kim Potter, a 26 year veteran of the Brooklyn Police department announced her resignation in […]
Protests erupted in Minnesota after police shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. During a Monday press conference, Brooklyn Center Police Department Chief Tim Cannon asserted that the officer unintentionally drew their handgun as opposed to their taser, concluding that the fatal shooting was accidental. “During […]
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — The police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb apparently intended to fire a Taser, not a handgun, as the man struggled with police, the city’s police chief said Monday. Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon described the shooting as “an accidental […]