Earlier today at a briefing, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said that the officer who shot Daunte Wright thought she was using a taser but instead accidentally fired her gun.
The police chief also called what happened in the aftermath of the shooting a “riot,” and some of the gathered reporters immediately jumped into “activist” mode:
The Chief of Police called it a “riot”. The press said “don’t do that” instructing him it wasn’t a riot. What in the world.
— Mindy (@just_mindy) April 12, 2021
It’s as if this Brooklyn Center press briefing has been infiltrated by anti-police activists masquerading as journalists—the hostile and hectoring questions are off the charts
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) April 12, 2021
Brooklyn Center Police chief said riot and immediately press start yelling back, “THERE WAS NO RIOT.” JFC.
— J.R. Holmsted (@JHolmsted) April 12, 2021
This is activism, not journalism:
Brooklyn Center Police Chief Gannon: "I was front and center… at the riot."
Reporter: "There was no riot."
Gannon: "There was… the officers that were putting themselves in harm's way were being pelted with frozen cans of pop, they were being pelted with concrete blocks." pic.twitter.com/aM5rfjYpxx
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 12, 2021
I'm sorry but are these reporters telling the police chief not to use the term riot when explaining how police responded to… a riot? pic.twitter.com/KBaXBRHXro
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) April 12, 2021
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The media is straight trash. The police chief says he was front and center at the riot and then the reporters cut him off to tell him they aren’t riots – “don’t do that”. These “journalists” are lying to you and enable this chaos. pic.twitter.com/W4auMe4R7R
— Brendon Leslie (@BrendonLeslie) April 12, 2021
Three reporters just yelled at the Brooklyn Center police chief that there wasn’t a riot last night.
How can anybody believe that there were not riots there last night?
— Abernathy ??? (@CombatTheMad) April 12, 2021
It wasn’t a “riot”? Look at some of these tweets from Andy Ngo and decide for yourself:
#BLM protesters began rioting near Minneapolis in response to the police-involved shooting of a suspected gang member. pic.twitter.com/Pr7VNPPfoq
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 12, 2021
The Brooklyn Center Walmart in Minnesota was broken into and looted in response to the BLM race rioting overnight after police shot dead a suspected gang member who was trying to escape a warrant arrest. #DaunteWright #Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/2s2At0sEFn
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 12, 2021
People looted a GameStop overnight in response to BLM inciting a riot & violence in Brooklyn Center (near Minneapolis) after police killed a criminal suspect evading arrest. #DuanteWright pic.twitter.com/LWPA4Xm7r2
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 12, 2021
BLM looters break inside & steal from an O’Reilly’s auto store overnight in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Auto stores were infamously looted & burnt to the ground last year in Minneapolis. #DaunteWright pic.twitter.com/nEHyR1Ck0x
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 12, 2021
A gas station convenience store was looted clean by #BLM rioters overnight in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Rioters & protesters are responding violently to the police killing of a wanted criminal suspect who tried fleeing by vehicle. #DuanteWright pic.twitter.com/ctRa6Y5bFl
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 12, 2021
A group of women sing and dance outside of stores that were looted by #BLM rioters in Brooklyn Center, Minn. #DuanteWright #Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/bcUKGuXyr0
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 12, 2021