- His death is a tragedy, but we need to look at the full picture of why it happened.
"...Daunte Wright, or at least the life he led, killed Daunte Wright.
- He wasn’t pulled over because he had air fresheners hanging from his rearview mirror.
- He was pulled over because he had expired tags on his license plate.
- Then it was noticed that he had air fresheners hanging from his rear view.
- Then it was noticed he had an outstanding warrant.
- Then it was noticed he resisted arrest.
- Then it was noticed he got back in his car and drove away from the police.
The circumstances from which that police encounter arose make for scintillating reading.
- He was reported to the police for waving a gun around, and when the cops showed up it turned out Wright didn’t have a permit for the gun.
- He ran away.
- And he was cited and ordered to appear in court. He didn’t, which occasioned the warrant for his arrest.
- There was the February arrest for aggravated robbery.
- There was a disorderly conduct charge arising from a 2019 incident.
- There was the guilty plea in late 2019 to possession and sale of marijuana.
- And there was an arrest warrant for armed robbery; Wright was accused of choke-holding a woman and threatening her at gunpoint, demanding $820 intended to pay her rent.
Daunte Wright dropped out of high school, then fathered a child out of wedlock he couldn’t support with minimum-wage jobs and petty drug dealing.
He had borrowed $50 from his parents to take his car to a car wash and had his girlfriend in the car with him, with expired license tags.
He was stopped by the police, resisted arrest, and then attempted to drive away — which raised the likelihood that he would expose his girlfriend to bodily harm.
She was apparently injured when, as he bled out following being shot by Officer Potter, he crashed the car attempting a getaway.
In other words, this is someone who chose to be a penny-ante John Dillinger.
He ended up with the full ante...Read all.
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