US Court to Sentence Ex-Police Officer Kim Potter for Killing Black Driver Daunte Wright

© AP Photo / Court TVFormer Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter, center, listens as Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu pools the jury after the verdict on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021 at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Jurors on Thursday convicted Potter of two manslaughter charges in the killing of Daunte Wright, a Black motorist she shot during a traffic stop after she said she confused her gun for her Taser.
Former Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter, center, listens as Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu pools the jury after the verdict on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021 at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Jurors on Thursday convicted Potter of two manslaughter charges in the killing of Daunte Wright, a Black motorist she shot during a traffic stop after she said she confused her gun for her Taser. - Sputnik International, 1920, 18.02.2022
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Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old resident of Minneapolis, was fatally shot by Brooklyn Centre Police Department officer Kimberly Potter during a traffic stop that led to an attempted arrest for an outstanding warrant in April 2021.
Watch a live broadcast from a court in Minneapolis, US, where 48-year-old former police officer Kimberley Potter is expected to be sentenced for killing 20-year-old black driver Daunte Wright.
Prosecutors are seeking a seven-year sentence for Potter for fatally shooting Wright in the chest during a traffic stop where she'd attempted to arrest him for an outstanding warrant. On 11 April 2021, Potter and a trainee officer stopped Wright's car for expired registration tags and a rearview mirror violation. Soon the officers found out that Wright had an arrest warrant for a weapons violation and protective order against him, and attempted to arrest Wright. When the young man resisted arrest and tried to get back into his vehicle, Potter shot and killed him. The woman insists that she'd intended to use a Taser during the arrest but grabbed her gun instead.
In late December 2021, a Minnesota jury found her guilty of first-degree manslaughter predicated on reckless use/handling of a firearm and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting of Daunte Wright.
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