A Minneapolis tech company that created an app where drivers can video conference attorneys during traffic stops or after a car crash has partnered with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota to make its app free to residents of the Twin Cities suburb Brooklyn Center.
The partnership focuses on a city that was affected by a fatal police shooting in 2021 that led to more civil unrest across the Twin Cities in the wake of George Floyd's murder by police in 2020.
In April 2021, 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black man, was fatally shot by police officer Kimberly Potter during a traffic stop. Potter said she meant to use her Taser when she fired her handgun. After Potter fired one shot into Wright's chest, his vehicle sped off and crashed at the intersection. He died at the scene.
