- Police footage shows a
Minnesota cop grabbingDaunte Wright 's mom's wrist as she filmed a traffic stop. - Wright — whose son was fatally shot last year by police — pulled over to film the interaction.
Police body camera footage shows a Minnesota cop grabbing the wrist of the mother of Daunte Wright — the Black man who was fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center Police Department police officer in Minnesota last year — as she recorded a local traffic stop.
Katie Wright told reporters on Thursday that she was driving in her car on Wednesday when she saw a number of Brooklyn Center cops surrounding a vehicle and two young people.
Wright said she was "doing my civic duty" when she decided to pull over on the shoulder of Highway 252 to film it on her phone.
She said she wanted to "make sure that those babies got home safe to their families because I don't want what happened to me to happen to any other families."
Body-camera footage released by the
"She's getting a ticket," the officer wearing the camera can be heard saying as he walks in the direction of Wright.
Another officer is overheard saying, "No, don't worry about it. Come on."
The video shows the officer walking across the highway and ordering Wright to hand over her driver's license or he would take her to jail for "obstruction" as she sits with the driver's side door open and films him on her phone.
In the video, the officer grasps Wright's wrist and takes the phone from her hand, putting it on the roof of the car.
The police body camera footage shows Wright identifying herself to the officer and saying, "You guys killed my son."
Wright alleged the officer put her hand behind her back as he walked her away from her car.
"If you take me to jail, I will sue you," Wright tells the officer in the police footage. "Don't ever touch me again."
The video shows the cop telling Wright he would send her a ticket in the mail for not handing over her driver's license as she protests that she wasn't pulled over.
The city of Brooklyn Center said in a statement shared with CBS News: "While assisting another agency on a high-risk stop as part of a homicide investigation, there was an encounter between Katie Wright and Brooklyn Center officers."
Brooklyn Center said in its statement that it released the body camera footage "in an effort to promote public safety and dispel widespread rumor or unrest."
The Brooklyn Center Police Department said in a statement shared with local outlet Bring Me The News,: "As one of our officers was assisting in detaining a person from the high-risk stop the person being detained stated she did not want to be filmed and wanted the person filming to stop."
The city of Brooklyn Center and the Brooklyn Center Police Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment by Insider on Friday.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, a person has "the right to record police actions as long as you do not interfere with their activities and are not breaking any other law."
Wright, who was wearing a wrist bandage at Thursday's press conference, told reporters the cop broke her phone and that she wants the officer to be fired.
"I don't want a police officer like that patrolling our community," Wright said. "There's just no way that it's OK for somebody like that that has that much aggression toward somebody who is not even breaking the law... What he would do if somebody was actually breaking the law?"
Wright's son, Daunte, was fatally shot by former Brooklyn Center cop Kim Potter during a traffic stop on April 11, 2021. Potter claimed she accidentally pulled out her service weapon instead of a Taser and fired while trying to restrain Wright during the stop.
Potter was ultimately convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two years in state custody for the deadly shooting.