VP HARRIS CALLS FOR ‘JUSTICE AND HEALING’ ;OFFICER INVOLVED IN FATAL SHOOTING RESIGN

Tue 13 April 2021:

US Vice President Kamala Harris has called for “justice and healing” after the purportedly accidental shooting death by police of Daunte Wright, a 20-year unarmed Black man in the state of Minnesota, CNBC reported on Tuesday.

“He should be alive today,” Harris said, referring to Wright, before the start of an event on maternal health, CNBC said.

The network added that the vice president asked for “justice and healing” following Wright’s killing in Minnesota’s Brooklyn Center and reminded the nation that “law enforcement must be held to the highest standards of accountability.”

The Brooklyn Center police chief Tim Gannon and police officer Kim Potter, involved in the fatal shooting of the local black man Daunte Wright, resigned on Tuesday following two days of street protests in a Minnesota city, Mayor Mike Elliott announced.

Police Officer Kim Potter and the Brooklyn Center police chief Tim Gannon.

“The City Council… passed a resolution yesterday in support of relieving the police chief and the officer who was involved in this shooting. As of this morning, we have received a resignation letter from officer Kim Potter and in addition to that we have also received a letter of resignation from the police chief,” Elliott said during a press conference.

Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a small city in Hennepin County where 20-year-old Daunte Wright was killed Sunday during a traffic stop, is about 10 miles from where George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis officer in May and where a former officer charged with second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter is currently standing trial.