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Black Pain Has Become A National Spectacle

Ezinne Ukoha
4 min readApr 13, 2021

Another Black man shot dead due to an accidental discharge of a gun belonging to a Minnesota veteran police officer. 20-year-old Daunte Wright is now a tragic casualty of the thriving terrorism of police brutality.

Coincidentally, the location of the crime is currently a source of fixation for anyone following the trial of the year. Another Black man, 46-year-old George Floyd was also a victim of police brutality at the hands of a white thug with a badge, who placed deadly force on Floyd’s neck with both his grimy hands wedged in his pockets.

Wright was pulled over for a traffic violation, and instead of a routine process that usually ends without incident, the cop in charge yelled “Taser!” at the moment of escalation. This prompted her to recklessly dispense a single bullet that took the life of the victim.

So was it an accidental shooting or a panicked reaction to an active situation that police officers should be capable of deescalating without brutal force that could lead to death?

28-year-old Sandra Bland was on her way to work on the morning of July 13, 2015, and was stopped by a State Trooper for a minor traffic violation. The event could’ve been easily resolved without incident, except for the growing tensions that prompted her white oppressor to violently yank the Black woman out of her…

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