The Shooting Death Of Daunte Wright

For those of you who have not seen the news Daunte Wright was a 20 year old man that was pulled over in suburban Minneapolis on a “routine” traffic stop which resulted in his death via the police officer that stopped him. It is still early in the investigation and they are still pulling evidence and collecting the facts but the chief of police released a statement stating that the officer meant to fire her taser and not her gun.

Whether it is an accident or deliberate the out cry is the same. There is another black man taken too soon. There is another child taken away from its father, and there is parents having to bury their son.

Reading this story and watching this mothers painful pleas for them to remove her sons body from out the street brought tears to my eyes. Hearing these parents talk about how Wright called his mother to let her know he was being pulled over brought back memories of how Floyd called out to his mother as a police officer took his life.

As a black woman with two black sons I’m TERRIFIED. When do my babies become dangerous. When is it no longer safe for them to walk down the street peacefully without fearing for their lives. At what age do I start teaching them to fear the police? When do I have the conversation explaining that because of the amount of melanin you were born with you have to try extra hard to…