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In this courtroom sketch, attorney Earl Gray, left, appears as he represents former Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter, background right, during her first court appearance, over Zoom, in the traffic-stop shooting death of Black motorist Daunte Wright, Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. (Cedric Hohnstadt via AP) April 15, 2021 - 7:28 PM
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. - Daunte Wright s family members joined with community leaders Thursday in calling for more serious charges against the white former police officer who fatally shot him, comparing her case to the murder charge brought against a Black officer who killed a white woman in nearby Minneapolis.
Former officer Kim Potter makes first court appearance in Daunte Wright killing
Prosecutors will try to show that Kim Potter, 48, was culpably negligent and took an unreasonable risk in shooting Wright after pulling him over for expired license plates in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center on Sunday, April 11.
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Kimberly Potter booking photo, Wednesday, April 14, 2021.
MINNEAPOLIS The former Minnesota police officer charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop made her first court appearance on Thursday, April 15, as Wright s family called for full accountability for his death.
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Naisha Wright, aunt of the deceased Daunte Wright, holds up images depicting X26P Taser and a Glock 17 handgun (John Minchillo/AP)
Daunte Wright’s family members joined with community leaders in calling for more serious charges against a white police officer in Mr Wright’s death, comparing her case to the murder charge brought against a black officer who killed a white woman in nearby Minneapolis.
Former Brooklyn Centre police Officer Kim Potter was charged with second-degree manslaughter in Sunday’s shooting of Mr Wright, a 20-year-old black man, during a traffic stop.
The former police chief in Brooklyn Centre, a majority non-white suburb, said Potter mistakenly fired her handgun when she meant to use her Taser.
Daunte Wright’s mother says ‘justice isn’t even a word to me’ as ex-officer makes court appearance
The family of Daunte Wright the Black motorist shot and killed by a Minnesota police officer during an arrest attempt last weekend sees a manslaughter charge filed against the officer as a “good initial step” toward justice, a lawyer for the relatives said Thursday.
Wright’s mother Katie, however, later questioned whether even justice would be enough.
“Unfortunately there’s never going to be justice for us,” she told reporters Thursday.
Would justice “bring our son home to us, knocking on the door with his big smile coming in the house, sitting down eating dinner with us, going out to lunch, playing with his one-year-old, almost-two-year-old son, giving them a kiss before he walks out the door,” she added. “So justice isn’t even a word to me.”