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Officer ‘mistook handgun for taser’ in fatal US shooting of black man Daunte Wright

In police body camera footage of the shootings, an officer shouts "I'll tase you" and "taser, taser, taser" before the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Minneapolis.

The policewoman who fatally shot a 20-year-old black man in a Minneapolis suburb accidentally confused her handgun with her taser, police said on Monday, fuelling tensions in a city already on edge because of the George Floyd murder trial.

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“The officer drew their handgun instead of their taser,” Brooklyn Center …

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