Monday marks one year since Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by a Brooklyn Center police officer. The former officer, Kimberly Potter, has since been convicted and sentenced for manslaughter. Potter said she confused her gun for her taser, shooting Wright as he tried to flee arrest during a traffic stop. The case has wrapped up as Brooklyn Center’s work around public safety has just begun. Katie Wright, Daunte’s mother, is still determined to honor the life of her son through police reform. “Fight now, grieve later is the mode we are put in when our loved ones are killed by police,” Wright said during a recent visit to the memorial along a residential Brooklyn Center street where her son died. [Read more from MPR News reporter Nina Moini]
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