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Washington County Attorney Pete Orput charged Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, in the Sunday shooting that has inflamed racial tensions in this city just miles from where George Floyd died during a police arrest last May.
Agents with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension arrested Potter on Wednesday morning, Jill Oliveira, a spokeswoman for the bureau, said in a statement.
Potter, 48, was taken into custody before noon at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in St. Paul, Oliveira said. Online records for Hennepin County jail showed she was being held without bail.
Potter resigned Tuesday as calls for justice for Wright echoed throughout Minnesota.
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Kim Potter, the Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer who resigned after she fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright, has been formally charged with second-degree manslaughter, the Washington County Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.
Potter was taken into custody around 11:30 a.m. local time Wednesday by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
She is being held without bail, according to online jail records.
“Certain occupations carry an immense responsibility and none more so than a sworn police officer,” Imran Ali, Washington County assistant criminal division chief and director of the Major Crime Unit, said in a statement.