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Around 100 Black Lives Matter protesters gathered outside the Minneapolis home of Judge Regina Chu, who sentenced cop Kim Potter to 14 months yesterday for killing Daunte Wright, 20.

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A veteran former Minnesota police officer has been sentenced to two years in prison over the fatal shooting of a black motorist last April. In December, a jury convicted Kim Potter, 49, of manslaughter after she killed Daunte Wright, 20, during a traffic stop. He was shot dead when she mistakenly fired her gun instead of her Taser. The Wright family criticised the sentence as

MINNEAPOLIS -- The judge who sentenced white former Officer Kim Potter on Friday to two years in prison for killing Black motorist Daunte Wright cited the di...

Katie Wright, the mother of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, slammed the sentencing of former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter, arguing that the judge was swayed by "white woman tears." 

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Katie Wright, mother of Daunte Wright, said Kim Potter's mugshot showed the ex-officer wasn't genuinely sorry for shooting killing her son.

Former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter, who fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright while yelling "Taser," was sentenced Friday to two years.