It's Tuesday, April 13th. I'm a Heela Hughes.

And I'm getting ready to say this is what a day where we are never taking off the bandage they put on when we got vaccinated.

Yeah, honestly, I kind of like it now. It's so dirty that, you know, it doesn't even really look like a bandage, but it does just give me those good vibes from that day.

Mm-hmm. Mine is filthy. I just eat it.

On today's show, America's Mitten Michigan says it needs more vaccines to deal with the surge, but the CDC says no, what you actually need are some lockdowns.

Plus we'll have some headlines, but first the latest.

Yeah, those are the sounds of angry community members in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota late Sunday night.

They were out on the streets protesting the killing of 20 year old Dante Wright by Brooklyn Center police during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon.

Yeah, Wright was black and tensions were already high in the area because just miles away the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is going on.

Gideon, what do we know so far about Wright's death?

Yeah, I mean, it is just unfathomably tragic that this happened during a trial about an officer killing another black man miles away, as you said, but that is ultimately illustrative of American policing.

So this is a developing story, but according to local police officers pulled right over because of expired registration tags during that stop.

The officers found that he had an outstanding warrant.

And according to the New York Times that may have been related to a missed court appearance, stemming from two misdemeanor charges for carrying a pistol without a permit.

The officers then tried to arrest Wright and it appears he attempted to get back into the car.

And then in released body camera footage, an officer is seen holding a gun while saying taser and pointing at it, right?

She proceeds to shoot right as he drives away and she can be heard saying quote, holy shit, I just shot him.

So the official police line has been that the killing of Wright was a result of an quote accidental discharge, i.e. as Brooklyn Center's police chief Tim Ganon said, the officer mistook her taser for her gun.

Here's Ganon on Monday.

As I watched this video and listened to the officer's commands is my belief that the officer had the intention to deploy their taser,

but instead shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet.

This appears to me from what I viewed and the officer's reaction and distress immediately after that this was an accidental discharge that resulted in a tragic death of Mr. Wright.

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