None of which would have been known to the police at the time they initiated the stop.
So they initiate the stop so they can check for those things.
Again, police can only initiate a stop if they have a reasonable suspicion that a crime or moving violation has been committed. Based on the PD policy at that time, the police were instructed to NOT pull people over for minor violations, like an expired tag. This policy makes sense, given that covid-19 spreads through human contact, and that the DMV at the time could not keep up with license/tag renewals and new applications due to impacts of said pandemic. The police pulled Wright over for an expired plate, not an illegal air freshener (which was discovered during the stop), or an illegal turn (not part of any official police record I could find, including statements by the police chief). Therefore, the police violated their department's policy by pulling Wright over, likely because the police in the Twin Cities area have a documented history of racial profiling and were acting in this capacity.
The police were instructed by policy to NOT pull over people for minor infractions during that time, and they disregarded their policy when it came to this stop.
I do not think much of policies like that which are designed to disallow police to do their jobs.
Irrelevant. You are not the police chief or an elected official in the Twin Cities area who has the authority to make policy.
Besides, the officers first noticed the car when Daunte tried to make an illegal turn, as I have said before.
No, he didn't. Go look at the chief's public statements and the reports from credible news agencies. [removed]
Without it, they might not have noticed the illegal air freshener and the expired tag.
Not allowing police to make traffic stops makes us all less safe. It's a bad policy.
Nonsense. Pulling people over for expired plates does not make anyone safer. [removed]
Mr Wright would still have been alive if the police had obeyed the instructions they had been given.
He'd also be alive had he obeyed the instructions and not ran like an idiot. In the end, he lost way more than the rookie cop or even Potter.
I don't know what Wright was thinking at the time of the illegal detainment. Given the history of discrimination, violence and even murder that the Twin Cities PD is known for, I would not have been surprised if he were scared for his life at being accosted and arrested by the police. Mr Wright's warrant was apparently related to a $346 fine for a non-appearance in a cannabis and disorderly conduct related trial. Not a huge deal in the big picture, and not one most people would have been trying to run from. And also not something that would suggest that Mr Wright posed a threat to anyone in the community. So, yeah, he was killed because the police violated their department policy and a stupid cop terrified at the throught of a young black man with a cannabis charge related warrant running around free shot him dead.
Yes, Mr Wright would still have been free with a warrant in his name,
Not to mention drive around without a license or insurance, putting other motorists and pedestrians in danger.
Did Mr Wright have a lawful license to drive? If yes, he posed no threat to the motoring public by driving without a piece of plastic on him. And it is also completely irrelevant to the police violating their own policy and killing a human in a moment of racially biased prejudice (the fear of the young black man). You are only bringing this up in an attempt to divert our attention from the facts.
but that is better than the alternative where Mr Wright is dead because the police disobeyed their policy.
The traffic stop did not cause Daunte's death. Potter's mistake, which was precipitated by Wright's boneheaded decision to run, is what caused his death. Let's not forgot who chose to escalate here.
Mr Wright died because a white police officer was so terrorised at the thought of a young black man with a cannabis charge related warrant running free that she recklessly shot him with a jacketed hollow point. Those are the facts and there is no other explanation that fits the scenario. The thing we should be talking about is why she felt so terrified and overwhelmed that her 26 years of training and experience went out the window. Why is white America so scared of young black men that we keep killing them on the streets for no good reason?
That is the part you don't understand, because you do not view black people as human beings
BULLSHIT!
I do view black people as human beings. Which is why I hold them to the same standards as everyone else.
You on the other hand do view black people as less-than, since you always hold them to a lesser standard.
whose lives are of immeasurable value, just as your life is to you. Even people like Mr Wright, with a warrant in his name.
I do not disagree with this. That is not the issue. The issue is that you think police in Minnesota (and elsewhere) should not be checking motorists for open warrants, even if it means taking gun criminals off the streets.
Also note that had he not decided to run, he'd have been alive and well. In jail, but alive and well.
All your posts over the years speak to the contrary. You are not outraged that a young man was shot and killed by an incompetent police officer who was violating her department's policy, all over a fucking expired tag. You are continuously outraged that people protesting such acts of killing sometimes block roads as a form of protest. [removed]