{"id":421464,"date":"2021-04-14T13:28:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=421464"},"modified":"2021-04-14T13:28:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:28:29","slug":"brooklyn-center-mayor-cops-dont-necessarily-need-to-be-armed-during-traffic-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brooklyn-center-mayor-cops-dont-necessarily-need-to-be-armed-during-traffic-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Center Mayor: Cops Don\u2019t \u2018Necessarily\u2019 Need To Be Armed During Traffic Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrooklyn-center-mayor-cops-dont-necessarily-need-to-be-armed-during-traffic-stops%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=421464&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1867.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott, who now has \u201ccommand authority\u201d over Brooklyn Center police following an officer-involved shooting that led to the death of Daunte Wright, said late Tuesday that he does not believe officers must \u201cnecessarily\u201d be armed when conducting traffic stops.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott, who is managing the fallout from the incident after the police chief resigned Tuesday, was speaking on the possibility of police reform as a result of the shooting and echoed comments made by some federal legislators and national political leaders suggesting major changes to law enforcement strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe that officers need to necessarily have weapons every time they\u2019re making a traffic stop,\u201d Elliot said.<\/p>\n<p>The suggestion echoes statements made, over the summer, by the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement, that some functions, delegated to police officers, would be better performed by community service officers or social workers, though the Defund the Police movement did not cite traffic stops specifically, referring, more generally, to \u201ctraffic control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Body camera footage, released on Monday, showed the interaction that led to Wright\u2019s death. Officers pulled Wright over for a traffic stop. Wright, likely aware there was an active warrant out for his arrest, allegedly resisted police attempts to detain him.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center police force, appears, on the video, to draw a weapon from her holster, and aim it at Wright, discharging the weapon and killing him.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Center police officials claimed, Monday, that Potter meant to pull out her taser and, instead, pulled out her service weapon. In the video, Potter can be heard yelling \u201ctaser!\u201d at Wright before pulling the trigger, and after discharging the weapon, can be heard saying, \u201cHoly sh**. I shot him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the incident appears to have been an accident, national political leaders who were vocal over the summer, in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death while in the custody of Minneapolis police, have called for a review of the American policing system.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama said, in a statement Tuesday, that he believes it is time to \u201creimagine policing,\u201d as the system cannot be saved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hearts are heavy over yet another shooting of a Black man, Daunte Wright, at the hands of police,\u201d Obama wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s important to conduct a full and transparent investigation, but this is also a reminder of just how badly we need to reimagine policing and public safety in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elliott himself suggested that Brooklyn Center, like other police departments, may undertake reform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot afford to make mistakes that lead to the loss of life of other people,\u201d Elliott said Tuesday. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do everything we can to ensure that justice is done and our communities are made whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearby Minneapolis, Minnesota, tried to \u201cdefund\u201d its police department in 2020, following George Floyd\u2019s death. The Minneapolis City Council was unable to fully strip law enforcement of funding, first because of a city constitution provision barring the city from completely dismantling its police department, and then because of a sharp spike in violent crime \u2014 a spike in violent crime that occurred in nearly all major cities over the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott, who now has \u201ccommand authority\u201d over Brooklyn Center police following an officer-involved shooting that led to the death of Daunte Wright, said late Tuesday that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312171,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1867.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Brooklyn Center Mayor: Cops Don\u2019t \u2018Necessarily\u2019 Need To Be Armed During Traffic Stops","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1867.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Brooklyn Center Mayor: Cops Don\u2019t \u2018Necessarily\u2019 Need To Be Armed During Traffic Stops","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}