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The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

Daunte Wright: backlash over plan to move police killing victim’s memorial

The Brooklyn Center city manager announced on Friday that the memorial at the site where Daunte Wright was killed would be removed.
The Brooklyn Center city manager announced on Friday that the memorial at the site where Daunte Wright was killed would be removed. Photograph: Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images

Plans to remove a street-corner memorial to Daunte Wright have been put on hold, after protests from the family of the 20-year old Black man who was killed by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop last year.

“If they want to not have memorials on their street corners they need to stop murdering our loved ones on street corners,” said Wright’s mother, Katie Wright.

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