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The deep and profound problems with American policing got quite a workout over the weekend. As the trial of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd took a break until Monday, police in the adjoining suburb of Brooklyn Center pulled over a car driven by a 20-year-old Black man named Daunte Wright for what seems to have been a penny-ante traffic violation and, within minutes, shot him to death.