Hundreds mourn Daunte Wright, Black man killed by Minnesota police
Life lost
Daunte Wright, 20 was killed by a police officer Sunday (April 11) after being pulled over for an expired vehicle registration.
Error of judgement
This fatal police shooting of a young Black man appeared to result from an officer mistakenly opening fire with her gun instead of a Taser during a traffic stop.
Another fatal shooting amid Floyd verdict
Family of George Floyd stands with the Wright family. Daunte was killed just 10 miles (16 km) from the courthouse where a former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, has stood trial over the past two weeks on murder charges in the deadly arrest last May of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man.
'Lit up the room'
"My son had a smile that was worth a million dollars. When he walked in the room, he lit up the room," says Katie Wright, Daunte's mother, who fought through sobs as she spoke.
Other family members, cousins and siblings, remembered Daunte as "the life of the party" and a father who lived for his beloved two-year-old son Daunte Jr.
From protest to revolution
The shooting of Wright set off more than a week of demonstrations outside the Brooklyn Center police headquarters.
This killing in Brooklyn Center, like several other recent high-profile fatal police shootings of Black men, including the 2016 death of Philando Castile in St. Paul, originated with the kind of traffic stop that civil rights activists say have all too often been used by law enforcement as a form of harassment of minority motorists.
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