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🚔 Minnesota Police Shooting

A 20-year-old Black man named Daunte Wright died on Sunday after being shot by a police officer during an attempted arrest on an outstanding warrant at a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, MN (a suburb of Minneapolis).

• At a press conference on Monday, Brooklyn Center police released body-cam video footage (Warning: Graphic Content) wherein the officer can be seen pointing a gun at Wright and saying repeatedly that she was going to use her Taser. After firing a single shot, she can be heard saying “Holy (expletive), I shot him.”
• The police chief said he was considering it “an accidental discharge that resulted in the tragic death of Mr. Wright.” A 2012 article published in the monthly law journal Americans for Effective Law Enforcement documented 9 similar cases between 2001-2009.

Police in riot gear responded to protesters who gathered in Brooklyn Center on Sunday. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz imposed a curfew overnight Monday for three counties in the surrounding area.

• A reported 40 people were arrested last night on charges ranging from curfew violation to rioting, per Minnesota State Patrol Col. Matt Langer.

📰 Other Law Enforcement News

• Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam ordered a probe into a traffic stop last December in which police officers were caught on camera pepper-spraying and pointing their guns at a uniformed Black and Latino U.S. Army medic. One of the officers was fired yesterday. (From the Left | From the Right)
• At least three police officers were shot during a high-speed chase early Monday in Georgia that authorities said left one suspect dead and another in custody. (From the Left | From the Right)

🇮🇷 Iran Blames Israel 🇮🇱

Iran formally accused Israel of being behind an explosion at its Natanz nuclear site, an act Iran described the day before as “nuclear terrorism.”

• Multiple Israeli outlets have quoted unnamed intelligence sources saying Israel’s Mossad spy service carried out a successful sabotage operation at Natanz, potentially setting back enrichment work there by months.

Iran claimed it activated an emergency power system to offset the outage, saying: “Enrichment of uranium has not stopped at the site.”

🧠 In the Know…

🌋 The St. Vincent volcano La Soufrière is at it again.

🎥 Will Smith & Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation became the first major film production to pull out of Georgia in response to new voting laws. (From the Left | From the Right)

☝️ 1 Last Thing…

📧 The University of Kentucky mistakenly sent out an acceptance email to more than 500k high school students, according to a report by LEX 18.

💰 Microsoft Gets Nuanced

Microsoft agreed to pay more than $19B (including debt) to purchase speech recognition company Nuance Communications at $56 per share – a 23% premium over Friday’s closing price.

• Nuance is a pioneer in voice-based artificial intelligence technology, and was instrumental in powering Apple’s digital assistant Siri. It has since shifted its focus to health care.

More: Microsoft said the deal will double Nuance’s potential market in the health care provider industry to nearly $500B.

⚾ MLB NFTs

Trading card company Topps announced a partnership with the MLB to release its first offering of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, on April 20 at 1 p.m. ET. (What are NFTs?)

• MLB Topps Series 1 will feature 1,986 cards in all - essentially digitized versions of its physical baseball cards - available for purchase and stored on the World Asset Exchange Blockchain.

🇦🇪 Cruise Control

GM’s majority owned Cruise self-driving car subsidiary announced plans to deploy its robotaxis in the emirate of Dubai beginning in 2023.

• In a joint statement, Cruise and Dubai’s Road and Transit Authority said they plan to have 4,000 self-driving taxis in operation by 2030.

More: As part of the deal, Cruise will be the exclusive provider of robotaxi services in the emirate until 2029.

🧠 In The Know…

🏢 The best big companies to work for in 2021.

🚗 Uber saw record ride-hailing demand in March.

☝️ 1 Last Thing...

🇫🇷🚫🛫 France’s legislature voted to ban domestic air travel for routes that can be done by train in under 2.5 hours (five routes in total).

🏔Take a Hike

A call for a missing child is never ideal, but it’s even worse when it happens close to sundown.

This was the grim reality for New York State Trooper Brian Hotchkiss and his team when a 2-year-old was reported missing just hours before sunset in a chilly mountain town.

• After exhausting his resources in town - and with sundown looming - Brian made the split decision to hike up the mountain near the toddler’s home along with two other troopers.

“The mountain was virtually in her backyard, and there were streams and ponds and all these things that we were all worried about…”

Images: Rochester First

The troopers were able to locate a “pink dot” in the trees once they made it to the top and knew they had found her.

• Brian raced to the toddler lying face down on a rock near a stream – she was freezing, but alive.
• When he picked her up, “she hugged [him] immediately and wouldn’t let go.”

He said the toddler was taken by ambulance to the hospital and is safe and healthy now.

“I still can’t get that out of my head, her turning over and looking at me and throwing her hands up in the air… that’s something I’ll never forget.”

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