Posted on 04/13/2021 5:25:57 AM PDT by deport
Moments before police fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop Sunday in a Minneapolis suburb, he called his mother and told her he'd been pulled over for hanging air fresheners from his rearview mirror.
It's not clear how much of a role the air fresheners played in the traffic stop. Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon told reporters Monday that Wright was originally pulled over for an expired tag and that when officers approached his car, they saw an item hanging from the rearview mirror.
But Minnesota is one of at least several states with laws that prohibit hanging items from a vehicle's rearview mirror or affixing them to the windshield on the grounds that they could obstruct the driver's vision.
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I heard a “sports” talk radio show last night still pimping that this guy was pulled over for an air freshener.
No mention of expired tags, or the outstanding warrant.
He told his mom that because he didn’t tell his mom that he was pulled over previously and the cops found a gun in his car. He ran away on foot and they issued a bench warrant when he didn’t show up TO A COURT ZOOM MEET, so he was being arrested for an outstanding warrant.
None of this excuses the woman cop for shooting him, but at least be honest about his charges. The kid filmed himself doing community service for crime back when he was 14.
Just another good example that the ultimate end of any rule or regulation is enforced down the barrel of a gun.
Rules? Bureaucrap!
Forgot which USSC case it was but basically the police can pull you over just to see if you have your DL and ins card on you.
someone got shot somewhere recently
WTF is CNN even talking about right now? Air fresheners?
Who controls the news cycle? CNN is just another tiny little beholden pawn in the web of information, but they all twitch synchronously when the spider tugs at it. Who is the spider?
This happened to me 20 years ago.
Everything about this article is fake. Unadulterated garbage from CNN as usual.
This is another example of a fellow choosing not to follow a police officer’s instructions because of his own attitude ....
The inability to follow simple rules ends with disaster.
What's next? Outlawing blinking while driving?
Do you fail to see anything when your eye blinks?
I’m guessing that hanging air fresheners in your car is a sign to police that you are doing your best Cheech and Chong impression, and that you are trying to cover up the smell.
While I don’t think laws should make it a legal offense to hang things from your car’s rearview mirror, I personally think common sense suggests it’s a bad idea.
This guy was headed straight to hell. At least this way, he’s arrived in hell quicker, before he shot people dead in the near future.
Yes, sir, of course. For a tenth of a second.
Common sense isn’t common anymore.
“Just another good example that the ultimate end of any rule or regulation is enforced down the barrel of a gun.”
Very perceptive of you.
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In my experience, when you see that stuff dangling from the mirror, at least 90% of the time it’s a woman driving.
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