MINNESOTA city okays police changes, unarmed traffic cops, trauma responseteam.

[powderman]

   
MINNESOTA city okays police changes, unarmed traffic cops, trauma responseteam.
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/minnesota-city-oks-police-changes-following-daunte-wright-shooting-death

Minnesota city OKs police changes following Daunte Wright shooting death
The proposals were approved on a 4-1 vote, prompting cheers and applause from members of the public, a report said
By Dom Calicchio | Fox News


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The city council in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, approved a number of police policy changes Saturday night as part of the repercussions of the April 11 police shooting death of Daunte Wright, which drew national attention.

The changes include the creation of a new department of public safety that will be staffed with unarmed traffic officers and a mental health response division, FOX 9 of Minneapolis reported.

The proposals were approved on a 4-1 vote, prompting cheers and applause from members of the public who attended the meeting, the report said.


Officials with the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association and other groups had raised concerns about possible changes, including whether unarmed officers would be safe in handling traffic stops, which often lead to dangerous situations.

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"Brooklyn Center did not look to be in the national spotlight on these issues but here we are," Mayor Michael Elliott said in a statement. "And given the tragic incidents that occurred here, including those taking the lives of Daunte Wright and Kobe Dimock-Heisler, we must respond with a commitment to do better, and today’s vote is a part of that response."

The program for the funeral services of Daunte Wright is held by a mourner at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Wright, 20, was fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer during a traffic stop. (Associated Press)
The program for the funeral services of Daunte Wright is held by a mourner at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Wright, 20, was fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer during a traffic stop. (Associated Press)
Dimock-Heisler was a Black man who was also killed by local police, in 2019.

Elliott had introduced the proposed police changes last weekend and the city council members debated the details during the week ahead of Saturday’s vote, FOX 9 reported.

Wright, 20, was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, which lies just north of Minneapolis.

Authorities have claimed that the officer, identified as Kim Potter, mistakenly used her handgun against Wright instead of her stun gun.


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Potter was arrested April 14 and charged with second-degree manslaughter, and was later released on bond, pending further legal action in the case.

The Wright shooting occurred while the Minneapolis area was focused on a separate case, the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, who was ultimately convicted in the May 2020 murder of George Floyd.

Chauvin is scheduled to be sentenced in June following the conviction.

Dom Calicchio is a Senior Editor at FoxNews.com. Reach him at dom.calicchio@foxnews.com. Follow him on Twitter @DomCalicchioFOX

[ironglows]

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  In this era of widespread attacks upon armed police, such brilliant politicians want to disarm traffic cops!

  Nothing quite like pasting a target on their backs !

  I would hope that any cop denied the fail-safe of his/her issue sidearm, will at the least not neglect to carry their backup !

[oldandslow]

If I were a cop in that place I would be on the hunt for a new occupation, preferably in another city or state.

[Dee]

I sometimes carried a "backup". Most times concealed. The key to officer survival (a class I once taught), is to try and maintain ALERT advantage during the traffic stop, or domestic call.
The traffic stop is more easily controlled of the 2, but both of my shoot incidents were traffic stops, so there ya go.
There was never in my day, nor in todays environment, a time when I would make a traffic violation stop of an unknown occupant vehicle.
With, or without, a backup gun. If an officer agrees to go unarmed, but conceals a "backup", he is in violation of department policy, can be fired,or even prosecuted for carrying and using an unauthorized weapon.
I would hand in my department owned equipment, and start filling out applications. The city council in this case, has lost its mind.

[ironglows]

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  Any administration that acts in such a manner as these clowns, don't deserve any police protection

  OK, so Brooklyn Center recently had a tragic accident related to police work. Go through the process and correct whatever was done wrong...so much as it is possible to do so.  ...But don't endanger all police over one unfortunate incident.

  If that city council doesn't want police protection, let them say so...then put their safety where their mouths are !  Then the next citizen that gets hurt, raped or killed..can get an explanation from their own deluded city council !

[Dee]

I think if the present environment against police persists, some of these cities will get a taste of real anarchy.

[ironglows]

I think if the present environment against police persists, some of these cities will get a taste of real anarchy.

  I have to agree!  ..And hopefully any repercussions will land on the leftist councils and voters who elected them.

[Ranger99]

Police officers don't need to be
highly trained in psychiatry or
or to be able to discern when
somebody is mentally ill or has
underlying health issues.
There's plenty of expertly trained
people that do all that now.
I've never understood why people
that are mentally deranged and
unstable are allowed to run around
to where they can harm others.

[Doublebass73]

Hopefully LEO's will remember their employers wanting to disarm them when those same employers ask them to disarm fellow Americans with red flag laws.

[Ranger99]

Sad time in the world when there
has to be a mental health response
division as a part of a law enforcement
agency

[billy_56081]

I would imagine the police officers union will have something to say about this. I'm also quite sure these new unarmed traffic officers would have to be new hires.

[powderman]

I would imagine the police officers union will have something to say about this. I'm also quite sure these new unarmed traffic officers would have to be new hires.

YEP, and fully indoctrinated into the libby lefty ways. CHARLIE.