The tragic police killing of Daunte Wright

I’ve been reading about the tragic police killing of Daunte Wright in suburban Minneapolis. 

Mr. Wright, 20-years-old, was shot during a traffic stop as he resisted arrest (for a warrant), extricated himself from the grasp of officers who were attempting to cuff him, reentered his vehicle, and attempted to drive away. 

From what we know so far, the officer who shot him intended to draw her TASER but instead, in a moment of stress and fear, drew and discharged her firearm. The audio on her bodycam records her astonishment: “Holy s---, I shot him.”

The video is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgAUrDTUk4Q  

But why would she have been afraid of an unarmed man? 

Possibly because he was Black. But possibly because officers are trained to recognize the risks a suspect poses when allowed to enter their vehicle. The most recent case — ubiquitous as a police training case — is the traffic stop in Tulsa last summer of David Anthony Ware (a White man) who resisted arrest, and retrieved a gun from underneath his car seat which he used to shoot two officers, killing Tulsa Police Sgt. Craig Johnson. 

The video is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYxBOhhahyA 

How do we prevent tragedies like the killing of Mr. Wright (who leaves behind loving parents and a two-year-old son) from happening again? Anti-racist training might help, as well as training officers to maintain composure under stress, so they don’t make the fatal mistake of drawing their gun when they intend to draw their TASER. 

It’s also significant that, by resisting arrest, Mr. Wright — like so many other victims of police killings we’ve seen (victims of all colors) — inadvertently placed himself and police officers in danger, increasing the likelihood of fatal mistakes. 

Surely there must be a way to talk about this phenomenon without “blaming the victim.” Are we at a crossroads where we should just admit that a significant portion of the population will never comply with police, and change policing policy accordingly? What would such policy look like?