Policing the Police in Minnesota

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🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

As Derek Chauvin’s murder trial nears its end and Minnesota roils over the killing of Daunte Wright, calls for police accountability continue. Brooklyn Center Police officer Kim Potter shot and killed Wright, 20, during an April 11 traffic stop. Potter has since resigned and faces charges of second-degree manslaughter.

FRONTLINE correspondent and New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb has been on the ground in Minnesota, covering the Chauvin trial. He joins The FRONTLINE Dispatch to discuss the latest from Minneapolis and Brooklyn Center — and what the last few weeks could mean for the future of police accountability in America.

For more from Jelani Cobb and FRONTLINE, listen to our conversation from June 2020, and watch “Policing the Police 2020,” now streaming on YouTube, the PBS Video App and online.

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0:00.0	Closing arguments begin today in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek
0:07.8	Chauvin.
0:09.0	For about two weeks, the jury has heard arguments from the prosecution and defense about
0:13.5	his culpability in the killing of George Floyd last May.
0:17.9	Then last week, another police killing of an unarmed black man, Dante Wright.
0:23.2	As the trial of Derek Chauvin went into a third week of testimony in Minneapolis today,
0:28.5	a police killing of a black man and a neighboring community has once again left the region
0:34.1	reeling.
0:35.1	Breaking news taking place right now in Brooklyn Center.
0:37.4	Police have ordered at least two dispersal orders to the crowd that's gathered in Brooklyn
0:41.9	Center right now.
0:42.9	Those folks are there because they're demonstrating against the police shooting Dante Wright.
0:48.1	Frontline has been closely following the developments through the reporting of our long
0:51.8	time collaborator, writer and historian, Giovanni Cobb.
0:55.5	It seemed too outlandish that in the middle of the Derek Chauvin trial, there would be
1:02.9	another incident of police use of force that resulted in the death of an unarmed African
1:08.8	American.
1:09.8	I'm Rainier Ensen and this is the Frontline Dispatch.
1:17.9	The Frontline Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence
1:21.8	and journalism.
1:23.2	And by the WGBH Catalyst Fund.
1:25.8	The Frontline Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence
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