Benjamin Crump, civil rights lawyer, and lawyer for the family of Daunte Wright, asked the hundreds of family, friends, politicians and spectators at a Minneapolis church to honour the 20-year-old shot by police by standing up and repeating the four words: Daunte Wright life mattered.

Delivering Wright’s eulogy, as he did almost a year ago for George Floyd, civil rights leader Al Sharpton referred to Wright as the “Prince of Brooklyn Center” — the Minneapolis suburb Wright was from, and ultimately