“Sadly, we’re back where we started because yesterday just a few miles from the Minneapolis courthouse another Black man was killed,” said Colbert.
The police’s official explanation for the shooting was that the officer involved accidentally drew her handgun instead of her Taser, when approaching Wright.
Stephen Colbert’s opening monologue on the latest episode of The Late Show was dedicated to Daunte Wright, a Black man who was fatally shot by police in Minneapolis last week.
The footage showed the officer, shouting “Taser, Taser”, as police are trained to do when using the non-lethal device.