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  BROOKLYN CENTER, MINN. -- 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. Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter and Police Chief Tim Gannon resigned Tuesday, two days after Potter shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Gannon has said he believed Potter mistakenly grabbed her pistol when she was trying to pull out her Taser. Brooklyn Center Mayo...

A white police officer who fatally shot a black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb resigned on Tuesday (Apr 13), as did the city's ...

After fatally shooting a black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb, Kim Potter, the Minnesota police officer responsible for Daunte Wright's death, and the chief of police resigned on Tuesday. Two days after the death of the 20-year-old black man in Brooklyn Center, Kim Potter and Police Chief Tim Gannon resigned in their positions.  The 26-year veteran of the police force Kim Potter had been on administrative leave after the Sunday shooting incident. Minneapolis was already on edge over the trial of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin charged with murder for George Floyd's d...

The resignation of officer Kim Potter, a veteran with 26 years of service, “came amid a chaotic 24 hours” in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis during which police chief Tim Gannon also resigned and “the City Council fired the city manager”, transferring “control of the police department to the mayor”, The Washington Post reports.  Outside Brooklyn Center Police Department, “law enforcement moved in with heavy force against hundreds of protesters” who gathered at the police station for a third night to protest at the killing, The Minneapolis Star Tribune says. “As night fell, an ...

Prosecutors expect to decide Wednesday whether to charge the white former police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop, sparking nights of protests.