‘Aren’t our lives worth more?’: Daunte Wright mourned at Minneapolis funeral

<p>Days after streets filled with people celebrating Chauvin’s conviction the city held a funeral for the Black man shot by police</p><p>Two days after the streets of Minneapolis filled with people celebrating the conviction of a former police officer for murdering George Floyd, the city held a funeral on Thursday for Daunte Wright, another young Black man shot dead by police during a traffic stop.</p><p>The killing of Wright, 20, two weeks ago by a police officer who said she mistook her gun for a Taser shocked a city still reeling from Floyd’s death and anxiously watching the trial of his killer, Derek Chauvin. The shooting of Wright, the father of a one year-old boy, in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center sparked days of protests and led to dozens of arrests.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/22/daunte-wright-funeral-minneapolis">Continue reading...</a>