By Matt Walsh
DailyWire.com

BLM militants smashed police cars, assaulted police officers, vandalized police stations, and looted local businesses in Minneapolis on Sunday night. Video footage shows the pillagers ransacking shoe stores, auto parts retailers, pharmacies, dollar stores, and even pizza restaurants. As we have learned in recent months, no ointment can numb the pain of systemic racism quite like an armful of stolen merchandise.

The thing that caused the latest round of rioting is, as always, the depravity and moral degeneracy of the rioters themselves. But the ostensible excuse for the chaos is the death of a man named Daunte Wright, who was shot and killed by Brooklyn Center Police during a traffic stop earlier in the afternoon. Not many details were available about the incident, and body cam footage had not been released, when the riots began. The details never matter to the rioters. BLM has its narrative, which is always the same narrative, and is adjusted only to include the few sketchy and superficial details.

After a night of destruction, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon released the body cam footage and offered a more detailed explanation of the circumstances surrounding the shooting. The footage shows two officers attempting to arrest Wright on an outstanding warrant after a traffic stop. Wright breaks from their grasp and climbs back into his vehicle. A female officer then shoots Wright before he drives away, wounded, and later dies. Gannon explained that the officer fired her gun by mistake, thinking that it was her taser. On the tape, that same officer can be heard shouting, “Oh, sh*t. I just shot him!”

This is a case of accidental shooting that should be criminally prosecuted, nothing more.