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Kim Potter, pictured in 2007, shot Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop Sunday. She resigned from the Brooklyn Center, Minn., police on Tuesday. Bruce Bisping/Minneapolis Star Tribune via Getty Images
Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer who shot Daunte Wright, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter, according to Minnesota authorities.
The Washington County Attorney s office announced the charges Wednesday. Certain occupations carry an immense responsibility and none more so than a sworn police officer, said Imran Ali, an assistant county attorney and head of the county s major crimes unit. We will vigorously prosecute this case and intend to prove that Officer Potter abrogated her responsibility to protect the public when she used her
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MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -The white suburban police officer who fatally shot a young Black motorist during a traffic stop in a confrontation that ignited three nights of civil unrest was charged with manslaughter on Wednesday, a day after the officer turned in her badge.
Daunte Wright, 20, was pulled over in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center on Sunday for what police said was an expired vehicle registration, then struggled with police and was shot dead by officer Kim Potter, 48, who drew her handgun instead of a Taser in what officials called an accident.
The shooting escalated tensions in a region already on edge over the ongoing trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the use of deadly force against George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man suspected of passing a bogus $20 bill, last May.
Minnesota cop Kim Potter, who fatally shot Daunte Wright, charged with manslaughter KATE FELDMAN
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.
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Minnesota cop who shot Black man after traffic stop charged with manslaughter
By Nick Pfosi and Gabriella Borter
Reuters
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -The white suburban police officer who fatally shot a young Black motorist during a traffic stop in a confrontation that ignited three nights of civil unrest was charged with manslaughter on Wednesday, a day after the officer turned in her badge.
Daunte Wright, 20, was pulled over in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center on Sunday for what police said was an expired vehicle registration, then struggled with police and was shot dead by officer Kim Potter, 48, who drew her handgun instead of a Taser in what officials called an accident.