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A Minnesota prosecutor resigned Monday days after his office announced it would no longer handle the case against the former police officer charged in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center.
Imran Ali, the assistant criminal division chief at the Washington County attorney s office, wrote in a resignation letter published on the website of the KARE-11 TV station that vitriol and partisan politics made it difficult to pursue justice. Ali, who has worked in the office for 10 years, will leave in a month.
“The last several weeks have been difficult for me and my family,” Ali wrote. I pray that our state heals and the extreme partisan platforms dissipate.
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The case against a white, former police officer who was charged in the fatal shooting of a Black man in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center will proceed with a trial starting as early as December, a judge ruled Monday.
Kim Potter, a decorated, 26-year police veteran, resigned days after shooting 20-year-old Daunte Wright last month. The tragedy occurred a few miles from where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin less than a year earlier, and it took place days before Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter.