Police bodycam video from shooting of Daunte Wright released The police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb apparently intended to fire a Taser, not a handgun, as the man ... (Image by YouTube, Channel: 6abc Philadelphia) DetailsDMCA
It happened in a flash.
A deputy drew what he thought was his stun gun on a Black man who was fleeing, announcing his choice of weapon with a shout of “Taser!” But it was a pistol he pulled out, not a stun gun, and the man died. “Oh, I shot him,” the deputy says on video. “I’m sorry.”
Though the facts sound eerily familiar, that was six years ago in Tulsa, Okla., in a case that closely echoed what occurred this weekend in Brooklyn Center, Minn.
But what made the Tulsa case unusual, the deputy, Robert C. Bates, a reserve volunteer with the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office, was charged by prosecutors, convicted at a trial and sent to prison.
The similarities between the 2015 Tulsa case and the shooting of Daunte Wright are striking. Six years later, Mr. Wright’s death has once again provoked intense interest in how the legal system should treat such deadly use of force.
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