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Court TV via AP On Thursday, the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged with murdering George Floyd, adjourned for the week. Jurors will hear closing arguments and begin deliberating on Monday. For more than two weeks, the prosecution, a team of four lawyers, presented 38 witnesses to show that Floyd died as a result of Chauvin’s knee. They put on the stand bystanders who cried recalling the moment they saw Floyd die under Chauvin’s restraint. They brought in 10 l...

Kim Potter appears in court for first time after being charged with manslaughter in Daunte Wright killing Mike Brest © Provided by Washington Examiner Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter, who was charged with second-degree manslaughter in connection to the shooting death of Daunte Wright, made her first court appearance Thursday. Potter, a white, 26-year veteran of the department who resigned on Tuesday, appeared remotely with her attorney, Earl Gray. She was dre...

By Press Association 2021 Naisha Wright, aunt of the deceased Daunte Wright, holds up images depicting X26P Taser and a Glock 17 handgun (John Minchillo/AP) Daunte Wright’s family members joined with community leaders in calling for more serious charges against a white police officer in Mr Wright’s death, comparing her case to the murder charge brought against a black officer who killed a white woman in nearby Minneapolis. Former Brook...

Harriet Alexander, Daily Mail, April 13, 2021 Reform of the police is no longer enough, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Tuesday, as she joined fellow ‘squad’ member Rashida Tlaib in calling for the police to be abolished. The New York congresswoman responded on Tuesday to the killing of another black man, Daunte Wright, 20, in a Minneapolis suburb Sunday. He was killed by a white policewoman, Kimberly Potter, who shot him in the chest at a traffic stop in what the Brooklyn Center police ch...

Posted on   Law Enforcement and Security Analyst Paul Viollis speaks with us about: MN POLICE SHOOT                                                                                                                Kim Potter, a white former suburban Minneapolis police officer, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter for killing 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright in a shooting that ignited days of unrest and clashes between pr...

Daunte Wrights killing resonates in Duluth: We will not give up The local NAACP reissued its demands for Duluth Police Department reform.  April 14, 2021 — 8:28pm Text size Copy shortlink: DULUTH – Nearly 150 people filled a downtown street Wednesday to protest the police killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center as refrains of "No justice, no peace" and "Black lives matter" pierced an otherwise quiet afternoon. "Were being tol...

OP-ED: Cops who shoot unarmed Black people think everything is a gun. Except their own gun Leonard Greene New York Daily News (TNS) So, I’m reading about the cop who shot Daunte Wright in Minnesota on Sunday and the police chief who defended her deadly mistake, and I’m wondering if there has ever been a time in the history of law enforcement when an officer grabbed his Taser by accident when he meant to pull his gun. Kim Potter’s weapon was still warm when stories started appearing onlin...

The family of a US Black man shot dead by a police officer joined with community leaders today in calling for more serious charges against the white officer, comparing her case to the murder charge brought against a Black officer who killed white Australian woman Justine Damond in nearby Minneapolis. Former Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter was charged with second-degree manslaughter in Sundays shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop. The former police ...

Minnesota Teams Cancel Games Out Of Respect For Daunte Wright 62 With all the unrest taking place in Minnesota between the Derek Chauvin murder trial and the latest police killing involving Daunte Wright, the city has been at a breaking point with the ongoing protests. Out of respect for the recent police shooting death that took place earlier this week, sports teams in that area decided to postpone their respective games. The Minnesota Twins released a statement pertaining to the police shooti...

Wausau Daily Herald WAUSAU - The city will be the site of a planned protest Sunday in the wake of the killing of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man fatally shot by Brooklyn Center, Minnesota Police Officer Kim Potter on April 11. The protest will take place at the Marathon County Courthouse at 4 p.m., according to the event Facebook page. The protest is one of several that have been held in the community in less than a year in the wake of multiple instances of violence against Black p...