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Potter -- you know, we have to -- people say, well, she was on the force for 26 years. that is a mitigating circumstance. well, i look at it as shes on the force for 26 years. why didnt she know better? its not that she wasnt trained. oh, she was trained all right. its how was she trained? what was the manner of her training that continued throughout her 26 years? why didnt she know that that was a gun, versus a taser? why didnt she know that her index finger was on the trigger of a gun that was...

Minneapolis. and she also runs an organization called "dont complain, activate." she pointed out people are serving time for nonviolent offenses. were talking about people in minnesota who havent even killed anyone. yes, the community is grateful that there was some form of accountability, but in their eyes, this is not justice. this is the same community that is healing behind the killing of george floyd. and during this news conference, with attorneys who represent daunte wright, you heard att...

Behind bars. thats the sentence a judge handed down to the former police officer kimberley potter. it is four years less than the lowest end of the range. the sentencing guidelines were 6 to 8 1/2 years. so it is incredibly less, right, too. potter is seep here in this body cam video where she fatally shot 20-year-old daunte wright while yelling taser during a traffic stop last year. wrights parents are outraged the sentence is so short. >> kim potter murdered my son, and he died april 11th. tod...

>> now its worth pointing out that this two-year sentence is a significant whats called downward departure from the state sentencing guidelines. wed expected someone in her situation, a convicted offender who had no prior criminal history to receive somewhere in the range of 6 to 8 1/2 years, but the judge in this case saying she thought a lesser sentence was in order for at least two reasons. first, she said that potter didnt intend to pull her gun. she thought she was pulling her taser. the ju...

Wright, and some believe that is a life sentence. john? >> thank you very much. the right-wing media erupted this week over a new filing by special counsel john durham and spiked a lot of misleading claims about hillary clinton, why has the story all but disappeared? thats next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ move your student loan debt to sofi—you could save with low rates and no fees. go to sofi.com to view your rate today. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ im getting vaccinated with prevnar 20. so am i. because im at risk ...

>> reporter: both of wrights parents broke down during their victim-impact statements. >> she took our baby boy with a single gunshot through his heart. she shattered mine. my life and my world will never, ever be the same. >> everything we do as a family ends in tears cause all we have is memories left of our son. >> reporter: the mother of wrights 2-year-old son, also, spoke before the sentencing. >> kim potter took my sons best friend away from him, and things havent opinibeen the same sinc. ...

The judge to sentence her to just over 7 years. thats right in the middle of the guidelines. what do you make of that shift? >> i think that has to do with the fact that maybe emotions have cooled off a little bit and the prosecution has taken a little more sober look at their case. maybe they got some input from the victims families and other people in the system. i also think theyre trying to bullet proof the sentence as well because they dont want the sentence to be overturned on appeal, for ...

Justice. >> reporter: and john, daunte wrights family and members of the community said earlier today this was a slap in the face, daunte wrights sister spoke before kimberly potter was sentenced and references, and im paraphrasing here, a time when she, daunte, and their mother talked about their whiteness protecting them from police and despite all of this, nobody wins. attorney general keith ellison didnt speak publicly but says he accepts the judgment from judge shu, encourages the public to...

Types of things, and they could be relatively safe. >> right. well, well see. of course we saw what the russians did last time along that border when that jet full of people was shot down. thank you to all three. next were going to take you to eastern ukraine where, frankly, youve had eight years of that ongoing war, 14,000 people dead. thats what weve been seeing there. heres tonight. >> everyone is ready to tear russians with their own hands. plus the national archives revealing its talking ...

Abolished on a major level. were going to have to have a real conversation about a number of different accountability measures that need to take place in order to hold law enforcement responsible when they continue to violate the bodies and lives of black people in america. >> lets go back to the other story we were discussing before you brought you on, the sentencing of officer kim potter who fatally shot daunte wright. you have judge regina chu who acknowledged the sentence was a departure fro...