Why Kim Potter Was Not Charged With Murdering Daunte Wright On 4/30/21 at 6:01 AM EDT The family of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, have called for more serious charges to be filed against the former police officer who fatally shot him during a traffic stop in Minnesota. Kim Potter, who is white, resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department shortly after the shooting on April 11. She was later charged with second-degree manslaughter, an offense that carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years. Potter, a 26-year veteran of the department, mistook her firearm for a Taser, according to the city's police chief who also resigned after Wright's shooting.