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On Tuesday morning, CNN correspondent Adrienne Broaddus gave the impression that police shooting victim was pulled over and accidentally shot simply for having air freshener hanging in his car as she informed viewers of jury selection in the upcoming trial of former Minnesota cop Kim Potter.
At no point in the segment was it divulged that Wright’s legal problems had started with him trying to rob a woman a gunpoint, which later led to a charge of illegal gun possession and a warrant for his arrest. Fox fully reported on his criminal record last April.
After CNN anchors Erica Hilla and Jim Sciutto set up the segment informing viewers of the jury selection getting under way, Broaddus appeared live to give more details. At one point, she suggested that she was going to inform viewers “who may be unfamiliar with this case” of the relevant details, but then she fell way short. Noting that the inconveniently timed incident coincidentally happened during the high-profile trial of former cop Derek Chauvin, Broaddus recounted: To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported. Kim Potter attempted to pull over Daunte Wright for a traffic violation. He had an air freshener hanging from his rear-view mirror, which is illegal in Minnesota. Prior — as he was — as they were attempting to take him into custody, Wright entered his vehicle, and Potter yelled on that bodycam video, “Taser, taser, taser.” And she mistakenly pulled — she says she mistakenly pulled her taser — her gun instead of her taser. It was also not mentioned that Wright was pulled over for having an expired tag — a common enough reason for a traffic stop — and that, after he was stopped, the warrant for his arrest on the weapon’s charge was discovered, leading the cops to attempt to take him into custody.
By the end of the segment, viewers unfamiliar with the case would have thought they were […]
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