The Blog

2021-

2021-04-13 d
RESISTING ARREST (even if just getting back in your car) IS HAZARDOUS TO BLACK LIVES (so is driving with expired tags when you have an outstanding warrant)

Riots and Looting Continue in Minnesota for a Second Night, Following “Accidental” Police Shooting of Black Man

“Rocks and other objects were thrown at the police building, and there were reports that shots were fired in the area”

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:

Warning: Graphic footage, including the shooting

Here's the body camera footage of the killing of Daunte Wright that was just released. pic.twitter.com/A2X8qS8ZFH

— The Recount (@therecount) April 12, 2021

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.” (read more)

______________________

Permission is hereby granted to any and all to copy and paste any entry on this page and convey it electronically along with its URL,
______________________