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)The police officer who shot and killed a Black man in a Minneapolis suburb over the weekend has submitted a resignation letter -- as has the police chief who said the shooting was accidental, the suburb's mayor said Tuesday.

However, Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott -- who earlier told CBS he wanted to fire Officer Kim Potter -- said Tuesday afternoon he has not yet accepted Potter's resignation.

"We're doing our internal process to make sure that we are being accountable to the steps that we need to take," Elliott told reporters.

Potter, who state authorities say fatally shot Daunte Wright on Sunday during a traffic stop, and Police Chief Tim Gannon -- who told reporters Monday that Potter appeared to mistake her gun for her Taser during the shooting -- have turned in resignation letters, Elliott said.

 

Minnesota officer shouted 'Taser!' but fired a gun instead, fatally shooting a man at a traffic stop, police say

The letters came after a second night of protests roiled the city, with hundreds of demonstrators expressing anger at Wright's death, some of whom clashed with police late Monday.

Brooklyn Center City Manager Curt Boganey was also fired in response to the protests, Elliott said Tuesday.

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The first Black mayor in Brooklyn Center says Daunte Wright's shooting is 'unfathomable'

Wright's death, and Monday's release of video from Potter's body camera, have triggered raw emotion and protests in Brooklyn Center, just 10 miles from where the trial of Derek Chauvin -- the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing Floyd last year -- is taking place. About 40 arrests were made Monday night, Minnesota State Patrol Col. Matt Langer said early Tuesday.

Wright's father, Aubrey Wright, told ABC on Tuesday that he couldn't accept Gannon's explanation that Sunday's shooting was accidental.

"I can't accept that -- a mistake. That doesn't even sound right," he told ABC's "Good Morning America." He cited the officer's length of service -- authorities said she'd been with Brooklyn Center police for 26 years.

Wright's mother, Katie Wright, said she wanted to see the officer "held accountable for everything that she's taken from us."

"It should have never, ever escalated the way it did," Katie Wright told ABC.

Mayor Elliott told CBS on Tuesday morning that he believed Potter should be fired. Asked Tuesday afternoon why the city didn't fire her, he said officials needed to go through certain processes, "but the officer resigned" first.

Elliott also told CBS he wants "everybody to stay home," but "we also are going to protect people's rights to gather peacefully."

 

 

 

 

 

Photos: Protests after Daunte Wright's shooting

Wright's mother, Katie, eulogized her son at a vigil on Monday.

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• Elliott said Tuesday he's calling on Gov. Tim Walz to have the Minnesota Attorney General's Office take over Wright's shooting case. Elliott said the "sensitivities revolving around this case" require the attorney general to prosecute the case.

• The traffic stop that ended in Wright's death

• Wright was with his girlfriend Sunday afternoon, driving to his older brother's house, when police pulled him over in Brooklyn Center over an expired tag, police said. Officers learned he had an outstanding warrant and tried to handcuff him while he was standing outside his car, police said.

• It was not immediately clear what the warrant was for.

• Daunte Wright

• Wright's older brother, Damik Bryant, told CNN he texted Wright moments before the shooting, asking what was taking him so long. Wright sent another text saying he was pulled over and asked for insurance information, Bryant said. Bryant told him to call their mother.

• Wright gave officers his name before calling his mother, Bryant said.

• "They asked him to step out the car, and you know his first instinct was, 'What did I do, what's wrong?' And they were like, 'Well, put the phone down, get out the car now, we'll talk to you about it when you get out,'" Bryant said.

• "He said they pulled him over because he had air fresheners hanging from the rearview mirror," Wright's mother, Katie Wright, told CNN affiliate WCCO. "I heard the police officer come to the window and say, 'Put the phone down and get out of the car,' and Daunte said, 'Why?' And he said, 'We'll explain to you when you get out of the car,'" Katie Wright told CNN affiliate KARE.

• "So, I heard the phone get either put on the dashboard or dropped, and I heard scuffling, and I heard the police officers say, 'Daunte don't run.' And then the other officer said, 'Put the phone down'" before it sounded like the phone was hung up, she said.

• Katie Wright told CNN she called back several times until someone who had been with him in the car answered on FaceTime.

• "She pointed the phone towards the driver's seat and my son was laying there unresponsive. That was the last time that I've seen my son. That's the last time I heard from my son, and I have had no explanation since then," she said while crying during a news conference.

• How easy (or hard) is it to confuse a gun for a Taser?

• Body camera footage released Monday shows Wright standing outside his vehicle with his arms behind his back and an officer directly behind him, trying to handcuff him. An officer tells Wright "don't," before Wright twists away and gets back into the driver's seat of the car.

• Gannon, the police chief until Tuesday, said Monday it appeared from the video that Wright was trying to leave.

• The officer whose camera footage was released is heard warning the man she's going to use her Taser on him, before repeatedly shouting, "Taser! Taser! Taser!"

• Then, the officer is heard screaming, "Holy sh*t! I just shot him."

• The car's door closes, and Wright drives away. The car crashed several blocks away, police said. Police and medical personnel attempted life-saving measures following the crash, but Wright died at the scene, Gannon said.

• Gannon said the portion of body-worn camera footage released Monday led him to believe the shooting was accidental and that the officer's actions before the shooting were consistent with the department's training on Tasers.

• Floyd family meets with Wright family

• Katie Wright, center, the mother of Daunte Wright, is embraced by family members and the girlfriend of George Floyd at a news conference outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis on Tuesday.

• George Floyd's family left the courthouse during Chauvin's trial Tuesday "because they thought it was important that they give comfort to Dante Wright's mother" and family, attorney Ben Crump said at a news conference with the two families Tuesday.

• "We will stand in support with you. ... The world is traumatized, watching another African American man being slayed," said Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd. "I woke up in the morning with this on my mind. I don't want to see another victim."

• Philonise Floyd added that the time for change is now.

• "Minneapolis, you can't sweep this under the rug anymore," he said. "We're here and we will fight for justice for his family, just like we're fighting for our brother."

• Floyd family lawyer Ben Crump (right) and Chyna Whitaker, Daunte Wright's girlfriend (center), holding their son, leave a news conference at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis on Tuesday.

• Crump said it was unfathomable that a police officer fatally shot another Black man just 10 miles from where Chauvin was on trial. Crump said in both cases, police should have written citations for misdemeanors, but both Floyd and Wright were killed at the hands of police.

• "Daunte was trying to get away, he was not a threat to (police), " Crump said. "Was it the best decision? No. ... Young people don't always make the best decisions, (but) as his mother said, he was scared."

• Crump added that many people in the state cannot now renew their license plates because of the pandemic.

• "There are going to be a lot of expired plates out there," he said.

• Aunt: 'You don't mistake a stun gun from a gun'

• One of the family's attorneys, Jeffrey Storms, told CNN on Tuesday that the chief's explanation -- that the shooting appeared to be an accident -- "is by no means proper or enough."

• "There were a number of intentional events that led to (Daunte Wright) being dead, and we need to find out exactly why each one of those intentional events happened," Storms said.

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• "Grabbing your sidearm that you've likely deployed thousands, if not tens of thousands, of times is an intentional act," Storms said. "A sidearm feels different than a Taser. It looks different than a Taser. (It) requires different pressure in order to deploy it."

• Daunte Wright's aunt, Naisha Wright, gave a similar argument to CNN's Don Lemon on Monday night.

• "You don't mistake a stun gun from a gun. ... If I made a mistake like that, I'll be in a jail cell; they'll be trying to put me under. That's not fair," Naisha Wright said.

• Naisha Wright added she hopes Potter is held accountable.

• "Put her in jail. Like they would do any one of us. They would put us up in that jail cell. It wouldn't be no accident, it'd be murder," she said.

• CNN's Carma Hassan, Keith Allen, Hollie SIlverman, Peter Nickeas, Holly Yan, Jessica Schneider, Jessica Jordan, Christina Carrega, David Close, Shawn Nottingham and Brad Parks contributed to this report.

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