Daunte Wright family to receive $3.25M settlement that reportedly includes permanent memorial

Crime does indeed pay and pays handsomely when police officers are deemed imperfect in carrying out their daunting responsibilities while manning the front lines of the moral decay in America.

The family of Daunte Wright was awarded $3.25 million by the city of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, after the 20-year-old was accidentally shot and killed last year while resisting arrest.

The family’s attorney said in a statement that the agreed-upon settlement won’t be finalized until police training on issues like officer intervention, implicit bias, weapons confusion and mental health crises is included, along with a permanent memorial to Wright, Fox News reported.

“The comprehensive settlement in this tragic case will provide a meaningful measure of accountability to the family for their deep loss of a son, sibling and father, and they hope and believe the measures of change to policing, policies and training will create important improvements to the community in Daunte’s name,” attorney Antonio Romanucci said in the statement. “Nothing can bring him back, but the family hopes his legacy is a positive one and prevents any other family from enduring the type of grief they will live with for the rest of their lives.”

Wright was killed when then-Officer Kim Potter apparently grabbed her firearm instead of her stun gun as Wright struggled with another officer who was in the process of handcuffing him for an outstanding warrant. He was trying to get back into his vehicle when Potter fired.

She can be heard on video yelling, “I will tase you!, before saying, “Taser! Taser! Taser!” This reportedly being part of their training to inform other officers that a taser is being deployed.

The former officer was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two years in state prison.

A video that surfaced later captures a distraught Potter saying, “I shot him — I grabbed the wrong f*cking gun! I shot him. Oh my god!”

Wright had a criminal record “after failing to appear in court on charges that he fled from officers and possessed a gun without a permit during an encounter with Minneapolis police,” Fox News reported in April 2021, citing court records.

Tom Tillison

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