One year ago, Daunte Wright was fatally shot by a police officer who said she mistook her gun for a Taser.
Here's everything that has happened since then ...
Here's everything that has happened since then ...
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00:00I need you!
00:02Taser, taser, taser!
00:04Holy s***!
00:06They just shot him.
00:08Yes!
00:09It is my belief that the officer had the intention to deploy their taser,
00:13but instead shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet.
00:16When it comes to firing a gun instead of a taser,
00:29what does that say about police training?
00:32It's that police training is unimportant,
00:36and it does nothing.
00:38It does absolutely nothing.
00:40Police training is weak and unimportant.
00:46The officer's actions were absolutely not justified
00:57just because Mr. Wright had a misdemeanor warrant
01:01and may or may not have been trying to get into his car to drive off.
01:06The officer's actions are not justified.
01:09They could never be justified.
01:11Police should never be killing anyone.
01:15There should never be state-sanctioned killings of people in this country.
01:27Hands up!
01:28Don't shoot!
01:29Hands up!
01:30Don't shoot!
01:31You cannot train officers when you are functioning within a system
01:37built upon systems of white supremacy.
01:41You cannot train officers to not perpetuate white supremacy
01:46when the institution is there to perpetuate white supremacy
01:50and to exert social control over Black people and Black communities.
01:56You cannot train that out of the system
01:58because it is inherently a part of the system.
02:01There is no training that will stop this.
02:04If there was all the millions of dollars of training
02:08that have been used already in police departments across the country
02:14would result in fewer deaths.
02:16Yet, there are over a thousand people killed by the police every year.
02:21These trainings do not help.
02:24They are a waste of taxpayer money
02:27and are an insult to people demanding transformational change
02:31in our policing institutions.
02:37Transform the system
02:40Transform the system
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02:58The more details that come out about the police killing of Daunte Wright, the more upsetting
03:15and disturbing this horrific death becomes.
03:20It is of the utmost importance that we limit what police are responsible for.
03:26They should not be enforcing low-level offenses.
03:28They should not be involved in traffic stops.
03:33There are 10.3 million arrests made every year in this country.
03:36Only 5% of those arrests are for what we consider the most serious offenses.
03:42So things like rape and sexual assault and murder.
03:4595% of those arrests are for low-level non-violent offenses.
03:51Police should not be involved in those.
03:53Because as we've seen so many times, it results in the deaths of black people, and the harm
04:00and trauma in black communities.
04:03I sit there and watch, pouring my heart out in my victim impact statement that took so
04:28long to write, and I read it over and over again.
04:32I tried to not get a response out of the judge, but then when it came down to sentencing
04:39Kim Potter, she broke out in tears.
04:41This is the problem with our justices today.
04:46White women's tears trumps justice.