Another day, another unarmed black man killed by police in America. That’s basically how it went down for Daunte Wright on Sunday. After a traffic stop for an expired registration led to his death, the news made waves around the country once again — this time about 10 miles away from where Derek Chauvin is on trial for the murder of George Floyd, another unarmed black man who was killed by police. Understandably, this news was hard to take for many, whether they knew Wright personally or not.
There’s a certain privilege to being able to try and justify Wright’s death.