Police in suburban Minneapolis continued to respond over the weekend to news that an officer confronted Daunte Wright’s mother for stopping on a highway shoulder and recording officers.
Katie Wright held a news conference Thursday to present her case to the public: She said she stopped her sedan on a highway to record officers in the middle of a traffic stop.
“I pulled over to the shoulder, stopped to record to make sure that those babies — it was two young kids; they had to have been in their 20s — to make sure they got home safe, because we know we have a police problem in Minnesota,” Wright said.
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“All I was doing was my civic duty to pull over and make sure that those babies got home safe to their families, because I don’t want what happened to me to happen to any other families,” she said Thursday.
The Brooklyn Center Police Department, which did not specifically say the officer who confronted Wright was within policy or the law, released a timeline of key events related to the interaction, which happened Wednesday.
The police department, the employer of Daunte Wright’s killer before the officer resigned last year, also released body camera video and audio from the scene of the highway confrontation.
Daunte Wright was 20 when he was fatally shot by Officer Kim Potter.
Potter said she meant to deploy a Taser after Wright tried to get back in his vehicle during a traffic stop on April 11, 2021. Potter was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and sentenced in February to two years in prison.
