MINNEAPOLIS – Hundreds gathered to remember Daunte Wright Thursday, 11 days after the man was shot by police during a traffic stop and two days after Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder in George Floyd’s death.
Mourners filled Shiloh Temple International Ministries for the funeral of Wright, who died April 11 after a Brooklyn Center police officer shot the 20-year-old. Her chief said it appeared the officer mistakenly used her gun instead of her Taser.
The Rev. Al Sharpton’s eulogy for Weight included a stinging rebuke of the possibility that Wright was pulled over for having air fresheners dangling from his mirror. Wright’s mother has said her son called her after being stopped. She says he told her he had been pulled over because of the air fresheners. Police say he was stopped for expired registration.
Sharpton said Thursday that activists have come to Minneapolis “as the air fresheners of Minnesota.” He says they are working “to get the stench of police brutality out of the atmosphere.”
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