The Enraging Police Defense of Daunte Wright's Killing
You can only be satisfied with this excuse if you take several awful things for granted.
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On Monday, Tim Gannon, the police chief for Brooklyn Center, MN, spoke to reporters about the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, by one of his officers—and offered up an explanation that is symbolic of all of the many ways the police in America are granted an absurd, …
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