Yaya And Stacy

On April 11, 2021, at 1:48​ p.m., an officer with the police department of Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis-Saint Paul, shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a black man, during a traffic stop. Wright had an outstanding warrant for his arrest. As officers attempted to detain him, a struggle ensued and Wright re-entered his vehicle. An officer discharged their firearm, believing they were using their taser gun instead, striking Wright before he drove off.  Wright crashed his vehicle several blocks away. Though EMS arrived and attempted to revive him, Wright was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. Wright's girlfriend was also a passenger in the car. She sustained non-life threatening injuries from the crash and was transported to the hospital.  The event unfolded as the trial of Derek Chauvin—the police officer who on May 25, 2020, knelt on George Floyd's neck for several minutes as he died—was underway in nearby Minneapolis. Wright's death occurred approximately 10 miles from the street inte