Officer who shot Daunte Wright has been charged with manslaughter
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Flowers have been placed on a banner as demonstrators gather outside the Brooklyn Center (Minn.) Police Department on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, to protest Sunday s fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. â Prosecutors have filed a second-degree manslaughter charge against the former police officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in Minnesota on Sunday.
Washington County Attorney Pete Orput announce the charge against Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter in a press release on Wednesday.
Kimberly Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright, a Black man, will face second-degree manslaughter charges, local media reported on Wednesday.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune said the Washington County Attorney Peter Orput confirmed the charge, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years prison and a $20,000 fine.
Al Jazeera’s requests for confirmation to the Washington County Attorney’s office were not immediately returned.
Potter was arrested on Wednesday, according to the Reuters news agency. She started working with the Brooklyn Center police in 1995, when she was 22, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
The 26-year veteran allegedly shot and killed Wright, 20, on Sunday after confusing her pistol and her Taser.
Decision expected Wednesday on charges for officer who shot Daunte Wright
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Demonstrators take cover from crowd-dispersal munitions from police outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department to protest the shooting death of Daunte Wright, Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Posted at 2:02 AM, Apr 14, 2021
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Prosecutors expect to decide Wednesday whether to charge the white former police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb, sparking nights of protests and raising tensions amid the nearby murder trial of the ex-officer charged with killing George Floyd.
Then-Officer Kim Potter is seen in Brooklyn Center, Minn., in 2007. (Bruce Bisping/Star Tribune via AP)
STILLWATER, Minn. (CN) The former Minnesota police officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright, sparking more protests and law-enforcement crackdowns in the already tense Twin Cities metro, will be charged with second-degree manslaughter, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. The former Brooklyn Center officer, Kimberly Potter, has been arrested by the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which handles officer-misconduct cases in Minnesota.
Washington County Attorney Pete Orput told local press about the charge against Potter, who resigned from the police department Tuesday, late Wednesday morning. Orput’s office is handling the case as part of an agreement between several Twin Cities metro county attorneys to prosecute each other’s police-killing cases to avoid the appearance of conflicts o