Crime & Safety
Daunte Wright Shooting: Will ‘Wrong Gun' Defense Work For Kim Potter?
Prosecutors will argue committed first and second-degree manslaughter when she killed the 20-year-old Black during a traffic stop.
November 29, 2021
A white suburban Minneapolis police officer charged with manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright, a Black man, said she meant to use her Taser to try to stop him from fleeing during an attempted arrest but accidentally grabbed her gun instead.
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Jury selection for Kim Potter’s trial begins Tuesday. When prosecutors begin presenting their case next week, they’ll argue that Potter, who quit the Brooklyn Center police force two days after the shooting, committed first- and second-degree manslaughter when she killed the 20-year-old Black man during an April 11 traffic stop.
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