Daunte Wright Mentor Wishes He Would Have Told Him About Police and Minnesota’s Air-Freshener Law
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The man who mentored the 20-year-old Black victim accidentally shot by a white police woman says he is anguished by his failure to mention the law that led to fatal interaction.
A Minnesota educator who mentored Daunte Wright while he was in high school said he is haunted by conversations the two had—and by his perceived failure to mention that police sometimes use the sight of car air fresheners as a pretext to stop Black men.
