MINNEAPOLIS — The mother of Daunte Wright, who was fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer last year, is criticizing one of the department's officers for briefly detaining her after she stopped on the side of a highway to record an arrest during a traffic stop.
Brooklyn Center police were assisting another law enforcement agency Wednesday night in what the department described in a news release as a "high-risk" stop related to a homicide investigation around 8:10 p.m. on the side of Highway 252 southbound north of 66th Avenue.
Seeing a cluster of police cars, Katie Wright said she pulled over on the northbound side of the highway, opened her car door and started recording the interaction on her phone because she was concerned the people involved could be hurt by police.
