The leader of the largest police union in Minnesota placed blame for the death of Daunte Wright at the feet of the deceased 20-year-old himself.
“This is going to be an unpopular statement,” Brian Peters, executive director of the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, said on talk radio Wednesday. “Daunte Wright, if he would have just complied. He was told he was under arrest. They were arresting him on a warrant for weapons. He set off a chain of events that unfortunately led to his death.”
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Peters clarified that he is “not excusing it” but “what we’re seeing in policing these days is that non-compliance by the public.”
Wright was shot and killed by 26-year Brooklyn Center Police Department veteran Kim Potter on Sunday while Wright was resisting arrest for an outstanding felony warrant and attempting to flee in his car.
The body camera footage of the incident was posted on social media, and an officer can be heard shouting, “Taser! Taser!” moments before Wright is shot with a handgun.
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"Holy s—. I shot him," Potter then says in the video.TweetPolice say Potter mistook her taser for her handgun. The longtime police officer, who was training another officer at the time of the shooting, resigned from her position and was charged with second degree manslaughter.
Black Lives Matter protesters have used the death as a rallying cry in their push to reform and, in many cases, disband police departments across the country entirely. Riots have broken out for several days in Minneapolis, resulting in dozens of arrests and the National Guard being called. Tweet
