The agent who killed the young African-American in Minneapolis mistook his service weapon for a taser

The policeman who killed Daunte Wright in Minneapolis on Sunday, 20-year-old African American mistook his service weapon for a Taser, as emerges from the camera carried by the officer, who recorded what happened.

The Brooklyn Police Center on Monday released police camera video of the officer approaching Daunte Wright’s vehicle and asking him to get out of the car. The agents try to tie up Wright, but he manages to escape and gets back into his vehicle.

Then the agent pulls out a pistol and yells “Taser!” three times and after the shoot, he immediately laments “Shit! I shot him ”, states, based on the audio of the recording.

“When I saw the video and listened to the officer’s orders, I deduced that she intended to remove the taser, but she shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet,” said Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon, according to local press.

“After seeing it and seeing the agent’s reaction in immediately regretting it, I think it was accidental use that resulted in Mr.“, argument.

Minneapolis had its second night of protests on Monday despite the start of a curfew in the northern city, rocked by Wright’s alleged accidental death, as the George Floyd murder trial unfolds.

US President Joe Biden has spoken out about the incident, saying the peaceful protests are understandable..

Police, who his superior said were an experienced officer, were suspended and his name was withheld.

This new death of an African-American citizen at the hands of the police has revived the trauma of a city that suffered several nights of incidents after the death of George Floyd May 25.

(With information from Europa Press and EFE)

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