| Daunte Wright is shot by police and dies in the Minneapolis metro area; Israel is reportedly behind an attack on an Iranian nuclear facility. Tonight's Sentences was written by Greg Svirnovskiy.
Vox has launched Down to Earth, a new reporting initiative highlighting the looming stakes of the biodiversity crisis — a place where you can expect stories on climate policy solutions, corporate accountability, and culturally diverse conservation practices. Learn more here. | | | | | | | Young Black man dies after "accidental discharge" by Minneapolis-area police officer | | | | | Chris Tuite/ImageSPACE/MediaPunch/Getty Images | | - Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was shot after a traffic stop by an officer who police say mistook her gun for a Taser. The shooting, which occurred in a Minneapolis suburb, happened on the 10th day of the Derek Chauvin trial and touched off a wave of protests and demonstrations Monday. [USA Today / Ryan W. Miller, Elinor Aspegren, and Eric Ferkenhoff]
- Wright and his girlfriend were initially pulled over by police after they noticed his car had expired tags. He called his mother to ask for the family's insurance information as the officers discovered he had an outstanding arrest warrant. [NPR / Becky Sullivan]
- After talking with one of the officers, Wright exited the car and turned his back to the officer to be handcuffed. He later appeared to move his hands out of the way and duck back into the car. That's when the other officer, still unnamed by Minneapolis police, ran toward Wright and drew her handgun, firing once. [CNN / Adrienne Broaddus, Holly Yan, Keith Allen, and Hollie Silverman]
- "I'll Tase you! I'll Tase you! Taser! Taser! Taser!" the officer was shouting on bodycam footage released during a police press conference. After she fired the shot, with Wright now at the wheel, the car sped into oncoming traffic and crashed. "Holy shit! I shot him," she said next. [AP / Mohamed Ibrahim]
- The shooting comes at a tense time for the Minneapolis region as the trial of Derek Chauvin enters its third week. George Floyd was killed just miles away from Brooklyn Center, the city suburb where Wright was killed in what Police Chief Tim Gannon termed an "accidental discharge." [NBC News / Rachel Elbaum and Caroline Radnofsky]
- The shooting recenters the debate on ending pretext traffic stops, which allow officers to investigate motorists for serious crimes despite only pulling them over for smaller traffic violations. Pretextual traffic stops have been shown to have a clear racial bias. [Pew Research Center/ Marsha Mercer]
- When asked about the shooting, President Joe Biden said he'd been briefed by law enforcement and called for calm throughout the city. "And the fact is that, you know, we do know that the anger, pain and trauma that exists in the Black community in that environment is real. It's serious and it's consequential. But it will not justify violence and/or looting," Biden said. [CNN / Maegan Vazquez]
| | | Attack on Iranian nuclear facility | | - On Monday, an explosion rocked Iran's Natanz nuclear facility, destroying nuclear centrifuges and setting back Iranian nuclear capability by at least nine months. Israel was allegedly behind the attack, which could imperil negotiations for an American return to the Iran nuclear deal. [The Jerusalem Post / Tzvi Joffre]
- The attack came a day after Iran revealed newer, more advanced centrifuges at its Natanz facility. While the Iranians have said they only want nuclear energy from the enrichment process, Israel has interpreted steps toward nuclearization as an existential threat. [Al Jazeera / Maziar Motamedi]
- Israeli officials have tried to prevent renewed talks between the United States and Iran, and sabotaging Natanz was likely an extension of that goal. [NYT / Ronen Bergman, Rick Gladstone, and Farnaz Fassihi]
- On Monday, the Israeli Prime Minister met with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, whose arrival in Israel came just as international officials were first hearing of the attack. "My policy as prime minister of Israel is clear: I will never allow Iran to obtain the nuclear capability to carry out its genocidal goal of eliminating Israel," Netanyahu said. Austin said efforts at peace "will continue." [AP / Jon Gambrell]
- On Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif explicitly blamed Israel. "The Zionists want to take revenge because of our progress in the way to lift sanctions. ... We will not allow this act of sabotage to affect the nuclear talks," Zarif said on state TV. [Reuters / Parisa Hafezi]
| | | | | | | CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said the key to getting Covid-19 back in control in Michigan is for the state to shut down, not extra vaccines. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer asked the public to take a two-week break from indoor dining and in-person high school. | | | [New York Times] - Hideki Matsuyama, 29, became the first Japanese male golfer ever to win a major championship. [ESPN]
- Median pay for CEOs at America's largest companies is up big. It stood at $13.7 million last year, up from $12.8 million the year before, a median raise of nearly 15 percent. Even after some CEOs took pay cuts in the depths of the pandemic, they made that money back via a rebounding stock market. [WSJ / Theo Francis and Kristin Broughton]
- Rep. Matt Gaetz denied meeting with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago, a sign of the Congress member's ever-shrinking circle of support. [CNN / Gabby Orr, Dana Bash, and Kevin Liptak]
- The UK celebrated the close of another lockdown by flocking to pubs and hairdressers and other nonessential businesses. The end of lockdown comes amid a successful vaccination effort, which has seen almost half of the country's citizens receiving a first dose. [Axios / Fadel Allassan]
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