Floyd family, lawyer, decry ‘injustice’ of Daunte Wright’s death

Wright’s family is offered support from civil rights lawyer Ben Crump and Floyd’s family as officer who shot Wright resigns.

Civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump was joined by the families of Daunte Wright and George Floyd in Minneapolis on Tuesday, calling for justice for Wright’s death in what police have called an “accident”. “We believed with everything in our heart, that police would be on their best behaviour, that they will exercise their greatest standard of care that they will concentrate on de-escalation in a way that they have never concentrated,” said Crump, who previously called Wright’s death an injustice. Wright was pulled over and shot by traffic police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, on Sunday. Body-worn camera footage from the police officer who shot Wright appears to show the officer’s surprise after realising she had drawn a pistol, not a Taser, and fired at Wright.