After Daunte Wright shooting, city council approves resolution on police changes

Officials in Brooklyn Center, where Daunte Wright was fatally shot during a traffic stop last month, voted on a resolution to make significant policing changes.

Officials in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, the city where Daunte Wright was fatally shot during a traffic stop last month, passed a resolution that aims to make significant policing changes. The Brooklyn Center City Council convened Saturday afternoon to address a proposal, called the Daunte Wright and Kobe Dimock-Heisler Community Safety & Violence Prevention Act, to create new divisions of unarmed civilian employees to handle non-moving traffic violations and respond to mental crises. Wright, a black 20-year-old father, was shot in the chest on April 11 during a traffic stop. Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter, who is white, is charged with second-degree manslaughter in his death. After hearing two hours of at-times emotional public testimony, including by parents whose children were killed by police, as well as statements from the families of Wright and Dimock-Heisler, the council voted 4 to 1 to pass the resolution. The council member who voted against it, Kris Lawrence-Anderson, said she felt the council needed more time to consider it.