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You may not use or possess any firearms, ammunition or explosives. you have the right to appeal the conviction and sentence. if you are unable to pay the cost of an appeal, you may apply for leave to appeal that state expense by contacting the state public defender. you may be seated, ms. potter. id like to make a few parting comments. i recognize there will be those who disagree with the sentence that i granted a significant downward departure does not in any way diminish daunte wrights life. h...

Sides. and you know, what makes this case so maddening, so, just upsetting is that theres really not much dispute about what actually happened. it does seem like kim potter thought she was pulling out her taser, but instead, took out a gun and shot daunte wright. thats different from the ahmaud arbery case which was a horrible indivigilante intentional murded the sentence will clearly be lower. however, that doesnt make the pain of daunte wrights family any less. the fact that the officer killed...

You. earlier when you said that i didnt look at you during the trial, i dont believe i had a right to. i didnt even have a right to be in the same room with you. i am so sorry that i hurt you so badly. my heart is broken, devastated for all of you. i pray for dante and all of you many, many times a day. he is not more than one thought away from my heart and i have no right for that, for him to be in my heart. and i do pray that one day you can find forgiveness only because hatred is so destructi...

Lesser sentence. is that a smart strategy? >> you know, i think its always dangerous to start blaming the victim, especially at the sentencing phase of a case. while the case is going on at trial that was the strategy defense used to try to explain away kim potters actions but were in the sentencing stage, which is a completely different part of the case. and so i think that thats a dangerous move. i understand why they did it, theyre trying to say kim potter acted reasonably and daunte wright m...

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Turning now to an update on police brutality and civil rights in america. today, a former police officer, kim potter was sentenced after something rare, the conviction for killing someone on duty. in this case, it was manslaughter for killing a 20-year-old daunte wright at a traffic stop, 2 years in prison, 8 unsupervised release, that is far less than what could be a standard sentence of about seven years. the judge found leniency in this rare, rare case where an officer was even charged and co...

No prior criminal history, we expected in the range of 6 to 8 1/2 years but judge in this case saying that a lesser sentence was warranted and in her view for at least two particular reasons. first, she said that in this case, this former officer thought she was pulling her taser instead of her firearm and didnt intentionally pull her service weapon and fatally shoot daunte wright and described the scene as chaotic and saying that officers are required to make sp split-second decisions and those...

The west and the u.s. is doing exactly the right thing in showing a wall of solidarity of heres what you are going to face. whether there will be cracks in that is what hes testing. there are very strong signs as secretary blinken said, we are going to stay lockstep in unison standing up to putin between the u.s. and the europeans, but this is a very fluid tough situation and very dangerous. >> all right, ambassador, we do appreciate your time today, your perspective to help us understand what i...

I want to bring in shaquille bruster. you saw that. that was not what prosecutors were looking for. >> reporter: thats exactly right, hallie, and it wasnt what the family was looking for either, and we heard from them during those victim impact statements inside the courtroom. they were asking the judge for that maximum sentence possible, and you heard that emotional statement from the mother of daunte wright who as she was giving that statement, you saw tears from the family of kim potter. you ...

Courtroom today to tell you about. kim potter, the ex-police officer who mistakenly drew a gun instead of a taser and shot and killed daunte wright during a traffic stop, sentenced to two years in prison. two years. prosecutors wanted seven years and two months and that has got a lot of people demanding to know why justice doesnt seem to count as much as tears. the tears of kim potter. sobbing in court, as she apologized to the family of the young man who died at her hands, and especially to his...