I did not tweet earlier out of respect for the service but Daunte Wright’s funeral was legitimately heartrending. He comes from a sprawling family that deeply grieved his loss. The sorrow also represented a kind of whiplash from the post-verdict joy of 2 days ago.

The funeral brought out hundred of people, packed a large church and backlogged traffic in a section of north Minneapolis. In attendance: Philando Castile’s mother, Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, relatives of Emmett Till, Jamar Clark and a delegation from the Floyd family.

Jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold played Amazing Grace while an artist made a portrait of Daunte Wright in real time. Harrold’s 14 year old son is the young man accused of stealing an iPhone in a SoHo hotel last winter. The entire funeral was in the service of demanding justice.

This is the portrait created during the course of the service.

Notably Attny Benjamin Crump, Rev. Al Sharpton, who eulogized Wright, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar who attended, used the moment to demand passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Also in attendance: Gov. Tim Walz, AG Keith Ellison & Brooklyn Center mayor Mike Elliott.

The service was beautiful but more than anything about the work I do I loathe how much it highlights how good Black people have become at burying our wrongfully dead. We’ve had a lot of practice.

I’ll periodically update this thread with some images from the day as I upload and edit them. Here is the program for Daunte Wright’s funeral. He was just a kid.