Daunte Wright's mother testifies she saw son's lifeless body in car on a video call moments after shooting
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The mother of a Black motorist who was fatally shot by a suburban Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop testified that she was saw her son's lifeless body in the driver's seat on a video call just after the shooting. Daunte Wright's mother, Katie Bryant, testified about the moment she saw her son lying in his car after he'd been shot by Officer Kim Potter.
She said she tried to contact him through a video call after losing an earlier phone connection, and a woman — presumably Wright's passenger — answered and screamed, "They shot him!" and pointed the phone toward the driver's seat.
"And my son was laying there. He was unresponsive and he looked dead," Bryant said through tears.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.