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I am so sorry that i hurt you so badly. my heart is broken, devastated for all of you. >> dauntes mother, of course, it also mentioned the indignity that she felt hearing kim potter only refer to her son as "the driver" throughout the trial and excoriating her for that and not providing the dignity of her sons name. now, remember how we got to this moment. a traffic stop for an expired license plate tag and a dangling air freshener from a rear-view mirror. and of course there were the attempted ...

>> the judge also hearing from dante wrights father, two siblings and the mother of his now 2-year-old boy. right now i can tell you the defense attorney is going through and reading letters of support that kim potter has received. he brought in a box of cards shes received from members of law enforcement and to go into the explanation of why theyre arguing for probation, theyre saying this is an officer who showed remorse, had no criminal history in her background and they said dante wright was...

To the holding area. the officers, the female officer told the white teen just pat him on the shoulder, said no, youre good, youre free to go. he thought he might be arrested or one point, see him put hands together to offer to be arrested, but they just said youre fine. youre good to go. we have not seen this video. were trying to obtain some of these additional videos but just an important bit of context. >> well get those and see those. thank you for bringing that. appreciate it. we just le...

Of manslaughter for intentionally drawing his firearm. officer potter made a mistake that ended tragically. she never intended to hurt anyone. >> now daunte wrights family spoke after the sentence. they are clearly unhappy calling this a miscarriage of justice. his mother spoke and ill read a quote, she said that this is the public -- the problem with the justice system, a white womans tears trumped justice. and we got a statement from the attorney general keith ellisson and he accepted the sent...

14 months in prison and a $1,000 fine is all wrights life is worth in the state of minnesota which is why so many, namely daunte wrights mom could not call this justice. >> kim potter murdered my son. and he died april 11th. today the justice system murdered him all over again. this is the problem with our justice system today. white womens tears trumps, trumps justice. >> the light sentence comes on the heels of the derek chauvin trial some said was a new era of accountability for police office...

That conviction on two counts of manslaughter, well, youre charged under the highest one, sentenced under the highest one, which was predicated under the reckless handling of a firearm, that notion of her using a gun instead of a taser. that maximum is 15 years in prison. the states guidelines actually offer the judge the discretion to sentence someone like potter, who had no criminal history, which you would expect, of course, from a police officer. but that discretion was really roughly six to...

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>> good day, this is peter alexander in washington d.c. andrea mitchell will join us live from munich in just a moment. but that emotional moment we just witnessed, with even the judge becoming emotional as she detailed the reason behind the sentence she gave to former police officer kim potter. shes just been sentenced in the fatal shooting of daunte wright for an a traffic stop that took place in april last year. joining us from minneapolis here. in this case, shaq, the prosecution was asking ...

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Of manslaughter for intentionally drawing his firearm and shooting across his partner and killing an unarm aed woman who approached his squad. this is a cop who made a tragic mistake. she drew her firearm, thinking it was a taser and ended up killing a young man. miss potter, will you please rise. given all these considerations and having carefully considered the comments of the family, of both dante wright and the comments of kimberley potter as well as the arguments of counsel, it is the sente...