Minnesota killing adds to the anger, and the stakes, as Chauvin trial nears its end

Long before a suburban police officer raised her gun and fired at 20-year-old Daunte Wright, Minneapolis was braced for a turbulent spring.

But the killing of Wright on Sunday — shot by a veteran officer who, the police chief said, had apparently intended to use her Taser — instantly added anger and combustibility in a region already on edge from the highest-stakes trial to date amid a mass movement against racially biased policing.