BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (FOX 9) - Videos show a Brooklyn Center police officer grabbing the wrist of Daunte Wright's mother while she was recording a traffic stop Wednesday evening.Katie Wright, the mother of the 20-year-old fatally shot by Brooklyn Center police during a traffic stop last April, says she pulled over on the shoulder of Highway 252 to take video after seeing a large police presence around a single vehicle across the median on the other side of the highway.She began live streaming on Facebook from her phone, showing multiple police cars with lights activated on the shoulder as cars passed by.
In the 12-minute live stream, a Brooklyn Center police officer is seen crossing three lanes on the highway, climbing over the highway barrier lines, and approaching Wright.The first three minutes of the Facebook live stream do not have audio because Wright says she was connected to her car's Bluetooth and on the phone with Toshira Garraway, an activist in the Twin Cities.
After the encounter, Wright talks about the events in her car.Wright, along with Garraway and other activists, held a news conference Thursday afternoon demanding the officer be fired by Brooklyn Center."I was not breaking the law," Wright said. "I was only doing what was right and what everybody else should do.
And I'm standing here today because I don't want a police officer like that patrolling our community. He escalated a situation that didn't need to be escalated."Katie Wright recorded the incident on May 4, 2022 involving police.