Funeral For Daunte Wright Set For Thursday

MINNEAPOLIS — The funeral for Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old who was shot and killed by Brooklyn Center police on April 11, will be held in Minneapolis Thursday. The funeral will take place at 12 p.m. Central at Shiloh Temple International Ministries.

Rev. Al Sharpton, attorney Ben Crump, and Daunte Wright's family members will deliver eulogies.

Watch a livestream of the service here.

Wright was shot and killed during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center after Kim Potter apparently confused her firearm for a taser.

Potter, 48, had been with the Brooklyn Center Police Department before she resigned two days after Wright's death. Potter was later charged with second-degree manslaughter in the shooting.

The charge was filed by Washington County Attorney Pete Orput. Potter's case is being handled by the Washington County Attorney's Office after the case was handed over from Hennepin County in order to avoid any conflict of interest.

Wright's funeral will come just two days after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd.

Even after expressing relief at Chauvin's guilty verdict, Floyd's family noted that the fight for justice and equality is far from over and vowed to continue to that fight for others, including Wright.

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