Daunte Wright's Death: Riots Break Out After Police Accidentally Kill The Black Suspect In Minnesota

The 20-year-old Black man died Sunday after he was fatally shot while resisting arrest during a traffic stop in Minneapolis on Sunday.

According to the Brooklyn Center Police Department, the weapons discharge was an accident. In the body cam footage of the incident released by police, an officer -- later identified as 48 year-old Kimberly Potter -- can be heard shouting "oh shit, I just shot him."

“It is my belief that the officer had the intention to employ their taser, but instead shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet,” police chief Tim Gannon said at a press conference Monday of the incident which happened on Orchard Avenue in Brooklyn Center at about 2 p.m. Sunday. "It appeared to me in the video that the individual was trying to get back into his car to leave."

Authorities said Wright had an outstanding warrant. The car was pulled over for having an expired registration and after determining the driver had an outstanding warrant, police said they tried to arrest him. Wright then re-entered the vehicle, and an officer fired, striking him, police said. The vehicle travelled several blocks before striking another vehicle.

A female passenger sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the crash, according to police. Daunte’s mother, Katie Wright, said the passenger was her son's girlfriend.

Court records show Wright was being sought after failing to appear in court on charges that he fled from officers and possessed a gun without a permit during an encounter with Minneapolis police in June. In that case, a statement of probable cause said police got a call about a man waving a gun who was later identified as Wright. Records also indicate Wright has had several other previous brushes with the law.

It didn't take long after Wright's death Sunday, for all the 'woke' political and cultural bad actors to get to work, spinning up narratives, causing more division and violence on the streets.

Violence broke out in Minneapolis as hundreds of people looted and rioted into the early hours Monday.

Some rioter were seen jumping atop police cars as they descended on the Brooklyn Center Police Department, where rocks and other objects were thrown at officers, authorities said.

Addressing a crowd, Daunte's mom, Katie Wright said her son called her as he was supposedly getting pulled over for having air fresheners hanging in his rear-view mirror – an offense in Minnesota.

"All he did was have air fresheners in the car, and they told him to get out of the car," Katie said. During the call, she said she heard scuffling and then someone saying "Daunte, don't run" before the call ended. When she called back, her son's girlfriend answered and said he had been shot.

"He was a great kid," Aubrey Wright, Daunte's dad -- who said his son had a 2-year-old son of his own and dropped out of high school two years ago -- told Washington Post. "He was a normal kid. He was never in serious trouble. He enjoyed spending time with his 2-year-old son. He loved his son."

Following the rioting and looting Sunday, the National Guard was deployed in Minneapolis.

Brooklyn Center City Manager Curt Boganey was fired Monday evening, hours after he publicly disagreed with Mayor Mike Elliott’s assertion that officer Kimberly Potter should be immediately fired in response to her fatal shooting of Wright.

“Effective immediately our city manager has been relieved of his duties, and the deputy city manager will be assuming his duties moving forward,” Elliott wrote on Twitter. “I will continue to work my hardest to ensure good leadership at all levels of our city government.”

The decision was widely criticized on social media as many noted that Boganey's statement was harmlessly right as Potter is presumed innocent until proven guilty and has a right to due process under the law, especially as a law enforcement officer performing her duties dangerous circumstances.

Riots and looting continued for a second night Monday as Minnesota police arrest 40 people after clashes with officers in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, authorities said during a press conference early Tuesday.

In a scene emblematic of the frustration of citizens at the divisive role played by the left-wing media, a man had a blunt exchange with a CNN reporter Sara Sidner over the media's presence in Brooklyn Center.

Sidner was reporting live from the Minneapolis suburb Monday night as fireworks were set off into the sky behind her.

She was then confronted by a man wearing a cap and face mask. "Now you can see -- y'all be twistin' up the story. That y'all doin'," the man interrupted.

Sidner asked the man who refused to give his name, what he thought about everything that was going on around them.

"What I think about this is, all the press and all the extra shit y'all do makes this worse!" the man exclaimed. "Y'all need to get up outta here with all that twistin' up the media and shit, real shit."

Sidner tried to calm the man and change the topic. "we're going to get to know each other," she said. But the man was not having it.

"How are you gonna know me?" the man asked. "Y'all just gonna edit out the shit that y'all don't want," he added responding to Sidner. "And then you're gonna edit out some other shit."

The man finally told Sidner to "get away from here with all that media shit that y'all doing. Y'all doing the extra shit for the backhand shit to make people crazier than what the fuck they are."

Wright’s death comes as the area was already on edge because of the trial of the first of four police officers charged in George Floyd's death.

The trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis officer charged in Floyd's death, continued Monday. Floyd, a Black man, died May 25 after Chauvin, who is White, pressed his knee against Floyd's neck. Prosecutors say Floyd was pinned for 9 minutes and 29 seconds.

The judge in that case refused Monday to sequester the jury after a defense attorney argued that the panel could be influenced by the prospect of what might happen as a result of their verdict.