{"id":431316,"date":"2021-04-16T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T21:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=431316"},"modified":"2021-04-16T17:50:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T21:50:17","slug":"fact-check-viral-image-claims-daunte-wright-had-an-arrest-warrant-for-a-marijuana-related-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-viral-image-claims-daunte-wright-had-an-arrest-warrant-for-a-marijuana-related-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Viral Image Claims Daunte Wright Had An Arrest Warrant For A Marijuana-Related Fine"},"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\">30<\/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%2Ffact-check-viral-image-claims-daunte-wright-had-an-arrest-warrant-for-a-marijuana-related-fine%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=431316&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><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10158323116303741&amp;set=a.10150543263738741&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old black man fatally shot April 11 by police in Minnesota, had a warrant out for his arrest for a marijuana-related fine.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Publicly available court records show no warrant was issued against Wright for a marijuana-related fine. The outstanding warrant was issued after Wright failed to appear at a virtual hearing for another case involving charges of possession of a pistol without a permit and fleeing a peace officer, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wright was fatally shot April 11 by then-Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter during a traffic stop, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/police-shooting-daunte-wright-timeline-case\/story?id=77094572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC News<\/a>. He was originally pulled over for expired registration tags on his car, but police attempted to arrest him after discovering he had an outstanding warrant, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10158323116303741&amp;set=a.10150543263738741&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widely-shared image<\/a> claims the active arrest warrant issued for Wright stemmed from a failure to pay a fine for a marijuana-related charge. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/16\/fact-check-daunte-wright-warrant-aggravated-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Was Daunte Wright\u2019s Warrant For Aggravated Robbery?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn October of 2019, Daunte Wright, who was a child, smoked a single joint of weed and was given a ticket for it,\u201d reads the post in part. \u201cIt was a petty misdemeanor. HE PLEAD GUILTY. They then charged him $75 + 81 in fees. And put him on a payment plan. It then went to collections in the middle of the damn pandemic. And so they opened a WARRANT FOR HIS ARREST. Over a joint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wright did plead guilty in 2019 to a petty misdemeanor for the possession or sale of a small amount of marijuana, resulting in him receiving a fine, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/pa.courts.state.mn.us\/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=1627256259\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court records<\/a> for the case number 27-VB-19-231563. However, there is <a href=\"https:\/\/publicaccess.courts.state.mn.us\/DocumentSearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no arrest warrant<\/a> related to that marijuana charge among the publicly available documents for the case in the Minnesota Court Records Online database.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pa.courts.state.mn.us\/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=1627256259\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Court records<\/a> show the citation for Wright\u2019s marijuana charge was \u201ce-filed\u201d in August 2019 and \u201csent to Collections\u201d in early December 2019, before the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/first-confirmed-case-of-coronavirus-found-in-us-washington-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> its first confirmed COVID-19 cases. Wright, whom&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mncourts.gov\/mncourtsgov\/media\/High-Profile-Cases\/27-CR-21-7460\/Complaint04142021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public records<\/a> list as being born in October 2000, was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/statutes\/cite\/645.451#:~:text=%22Adult%22%20means%20an%20individual%2018%20years%20of%20age%20or%20older.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legal adult<\/a> when the citation was \u201ce-filed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The warrant for which Brooklyn Center police attempted to arrest Wright on April 11 was issued after he failed to appear for a remote April 2 hearing for two non-marijuana-related charges in another case, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/pa.courts.state.mn.us\/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=1628760029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court records<\/a> for the case number 27-CR-21-4400. In late June 2020, Wright was charged with possession of a pistol without a permit and fleeing a peace officer by means other than a motor vehicle, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/503196493\/Daunte-Wright-April-2-Warrant#from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrest warrant<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pa.courts.state.mn.us\/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=1628760029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Judicial Branch register of actions<\/a> available online show.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Christopherson, a communications specialist for the <a href=\"https:\/\/mncourts.gov\/State-Court-Administrators-Office.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota State Court Administrator\u2019s Office<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/16\/fact-check-daunte-wright-warrant-aggravated-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously confirmed<\/a> to Check Your Fact via email that the warrant related to those two charges was the only active warrant out on Wright at the time of the traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>Former Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lP5khtsiuTM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Monday that he believed the police officer \u201chad the intention to deploy their Taser but instead shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet\u201d and described it as an \u201caccidental discharge.\u201d Potter, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/13\/us\/kim-potter-daunte-wright-resigns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also resigned<\/a> from the police department, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in connection to the shooting death of Wright, the Washington County District Attorney\u2019s Office said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.co.washington.mn.us\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 14 press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook claims Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old black man fatally shot April 11 by police in Minnesota, had a warrant out for his arrest for a marijuana-related &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312348,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Viral Image Claims Daunte Wright Had An Arrest Warrant For A Marijuana-Related Fine","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_video_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lP5khtsiuTM","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Viral Image Claims Daunte Wright Had An Arrest Warrant For A Marijuana-Related Fine","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431316","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=431316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}