Minneapolis Lives In 'A State Of Continuous Trauma' After Another Police Killing
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🗓️ 14 April 2021
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Police officials have said Wright's death resulted from an "accidental discharge," saying Potter mistook her handgun for her Taser.
State Rep. Esther Agbaje tells NPR the city has been living in "a continuous state of trauma."
NPR's Adrian Florido has been covering the trial of former Minneapolis police Derek Chauvin, which is taking place just miles from where Wright was killed. Wednesday was the second day for the defense to call witnesses in Chauvin's trial.
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| 0:00.0 | It was erected on Martin Luther King Day, a sheet metal sculpture replacing an earlier wooden one |
| 0:05.8 | at the intersection of 38th and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis. That's where George Floyd was killed. |
| 0:11.1 | The sculpture depicts a raised fist. This week it was moved from downtown about half an hours |
| 0:18.3 | drive north to the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. |
| 0:22.0 | Brooklyn Center, of course, is where another black man, 20-year-old Dante Wright, was killed by police. |
| 0:33.2 | This time by an officer who apparently meant to use a taser instead of a gun. |
| 0:38.2 | Since then, the town's police station has been the site of nightly protests. |
| 0:42.1 | The officer who shot right resigned and has now been arrested, she will be facing criminal charges. |
| 0:47.6 | The Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Ganon resigned too, but not before he was asked this question at a press conference on Monday. |
| 0:54.8 | Why is it that the police officers in the United States keep killing young black men and young black women |
| 1:03.0 | far far far higher rape than they do when? |
| 1:06.7 | I don't have an answer to that question. |
| 1:09.2 | Consider this. Minneapolis in the midst of a trial over one police killing is now grappling with another. |
| 1:16.8 | We'll hear how the city is trying to cope and the latest from the trial of Derek Chauvin. |
| 1:24.0 | From NPR, I'm Elsa Chang. It's Wednesday, April 14th. |
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