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Elected officials in a Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in April have approved a proposal to dramatically change the city’s policing practices.

The former officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright was taken into police custody Wednesday morning.

A white police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb resigned Tuesday, as did the city’s police chief — moves that the mayor said he hoped would help heal the community and lead to reconciliation after two nights of protests and unrest.

The parents of Daunte Wright speak out about their son and their loss following the deadly police shooting in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. News 4’s Tracie Strahan reports.

Police clashed with protesters for a second night in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot a Black man in a traffic stop over the weekend. Brooklyn Center’s police chief said the officer had apparently intended to fire a Taser, not a handgun, as 20-year-old Daunte Wright struggled with fellow officers.

Protesters gathered in Brooklyn Center, Minn., Monday night, following the shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.

Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon released body camera footage of a police shooting incident that led to the killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. In the video, the officer who fired the shot that killed Wright can be heard yelling “Taser.” Gannon says it is his belief the officer meant to pull a Taser and not a gun and the...

Protestors marched in the streets of Brooklyn Center, Minn., after the family of 20-year-old Daunte Wright says he was shot by police at a traffic stop. Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz tweeted that he and his wife are “praying for Daunte Wright’s family as our state mourns another life of a Black man taken by law enforcement.”