The officer, Kimberly A. Potter, who had shouted that she was preparing to use her Taser, resigned and was charged with second-degree manslaughter. “The danger that police traffic stops pose greatly outweighs any benefit of having them engage in that,” Ms. Fernandez said. Mayor Mike Elliott of Brooklyn Center, Minn., where Mr. Wright was killed, said police officers should not be pulling people over because of an expired registration during the coronavirus pandemic. The prohibitions against objects hanging from rearview mirrors can extend to fuzzy dice, graduation tassels and rosaries. The company’s website shows the scented paper trees hanging from a rearview mirror.

Source: New York Times April 17, 2021 06:56 UTC