State Of Emergency, Curfew Ordered After Fatal Police Shooting Near Minneapolis

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Police: Officer shouted "taser," but fired gun instead fatally shooting Daunte Wright during a routine traffic stop. Not far from the site of the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, the prosecution wraps its case in the Chauvin murder trial. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer in the situation room.
0:12.0	We're following a state of emergency
0:14.2	after another black man was fatally confronted by police.
0:17.9	Authorities preparing to enforce a curfew
0:20.3	that begins soon in the Minneapolis area, the community already on edge as
0:24.7	Derek Chauvin stands trial for the death of George Floyd. The shooting death of
0:29.3	20-year-old Dante Wright is adding to the tension and to the outrage. Police say it appears
0:35.4	right was accidentally shot during a traffic stop yesterday they say an
0:40.0	officer mistakenly drew a gun instead of a taser.
0:43.9	This as the prosecution is winding down its murder case
0:47.4	against Derek Chauvin.
0:48.7	Among the final witnesses, George Floyd's brother
0:51.6	who broke down in tears tears driving home their family's
0:54.8	loss and their heartbreak. Let's go to see it as Brian Todd he's covering the
0:59.0	new and fatal police shooting of a black man in Minnesota. Brian, that curfew begins in a couple of hours.
1:04.8	What's the latest?
1:06.2	Wolf an investigation is underway tonight
1:08.3	and the streets of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
1:10.1	are very tense in the wake of this shooting.
1:12.2	We have new information tonight on how it
1:14.1	unfolded including new police body camera video. We do have to warn viewers this
1:18.8	piece contains some video which some may find disturbing. On police body camera video, an officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota warns 20-year-old Dante
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