After Friday's hearing, Wright's mother told reporters her family was "very disappointed" with the sentence.
Wright's shooting occurred as Chauvin stood trial in Minneapolis for murdering Floyd and prompted days of unrest in Brooklyn Center, reigniting demonstrations in a metropolitan area that has time and again found itself the epicenter of conversations about policing and use of force.
Acting in what some could claim was an insolent manner, Judge Reinaker exited his vehicle and began arguing with East Lampeter Township Officer Chad Snader who pulled him over. Reinaker immediately questioned Snader’s decision to pull him over saying:
A judge in Lancaster County, PA flexed his judicial muscles in a corrupt way which has now placed him in hot water, accused of using his position as President Judge to get out of a traffic ticket. President Judge Dennis E. Reinaker was pulled over for reportedly tailgating the vehicle in front of him—who happened to be a cop in an unmarked car.
The ominous warning appeared to some to imply the judge was using his position as a public servant and elected official to gain favor with the police officer. It worked.
Known as blue privilege, there is an unwritten law among police officers: when they catch their fellow cop, or even their fellow cop’s family member, or a politician breaking the law, they are often times let go without consequence.
One officer tells Carter, dressed in a yellow T-shirt and gray shorts, to exit the car with his hands up and to face away from officers as he backs up toward them on the sidewalk. "Stop. Get down on your knees. On your knees. Keep your hands up. Don't move.
The officer said a citizen had reported the teen was a suspect in a robbery. The grandmother and her 18-year-old grandson were on their way to church, according to reports. A family is "shaken" after police in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, stopped their car carrying a white woman and her black 18-year-old grandson and detained him as a possible robbery ...
WISN. A family is "shaken" after police in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, stopped their car carrying a white woman and her black 18-year-old grandson and detained him as a possible robbery suspect, according to their lawyer.