Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer involved in the shooting death of Daunte Wright early this year, will face first- and second-degree manslaughter charges, a judge has ruled.
Potter shot Wright during a traffic stop on April 11 while trying to arrest him on an outstanding warrant. Authorities have said it’s likely that Potter intended to use her stun gun but mistakenly pulled her firearm.
Prosecutors, at the urging of Attorney General Keith Ellison, originally charged Potter, a 26-year veteran of the police force in Brooklyn Center, Minn., with both manslaughter charges. Potter’s attorneys, though, asked for the most serious charge, first-degree manslaughter to be dropped.
Hennepin County District Judge Regina Chu denied the motion, saying there was sufficient evidence to support probable cause for the added first-degree manslaughter charge.
Potter’s trial is scheduled to begin with jury selection on Nov. 30.
Potter, who was training another officer at the time, stopped Wright for a minor traffic violation. They learned through a records check he had a warrant for a gross misdemeanor weapons violation and attempted to arrest him.
When Wright, 20, resisted and got back to his vehicle, Potter said “I’ll tase you,” but drew her 9mm handgun instead and hit Wright with a single shot.
The shooting happened during the middle of the Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis, the former police officer convicted in George Floyd’s death.
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Just remember the police are evil when they fight crime in our communist society.
Only until the communists take over the policing like Lenin did in Russia, then like true secular socialists, evil becomes good and good becomes evil.
After how the left, RAM RODDED that officer last year, for Flloyd’s death, i had NO DOUBT this cop, would get kangaroo courted…
you mean …Saint Floyd?
DEMON Floyd. more like.
The shooting happened during the middle of the Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis, the former police officer convicted in George Floyd’s death.
They had already established their precedent—White cop—Black suspect—all cut and dried in their eyes. Combine this with their anti-police sentiment, how else could it go?
Another travesty of justice in the making.
I.A.W. U.S. Census & 2018 FBI (Table 43a)
Black males make up about 6% of the U.S. population but every year commit ~56% of all the murders and ~54% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year in the U.S. there are ~6,000 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 92% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
Where is the outrage from “Black Lives Matter” and prominent members of the African-American community? Where are the words of condemnation and sorrow from “Black Lives Matter”, Obama, Al Sharpton, or Jesse Jackson over the fact that members of their own race are summarily executing each other?
How many bodies do you have to step over to get to the one that you think is important only because a White police officer was involved?
“it’s likely that Potter intended to use her stun gun but mistakenly pulled her firearm.”,,,,,,,,does that mean that if she get s charged or convicted of 1st degree murder, so will Alec Baldwin? Equal Justice would dictate he would, not whether a person lives in or is judged differently by the Red Blue color of their state, or the black white color of their skin. Thanks to the sleepless woke Democrats this nation is becoming a divided tale of two cities, two states, two nations, where the corrupted Democrats are the dogs wagging the unequally treated American tails.
This is why i am shocked, THERE STILL ARE FOLKS stupid enough to BE cops in Minnesota…
Just another criminal that taxpayers no longer need to provide free housing and food for. Live by the sword die by the sword. Why is it that when a criminal dies from his bad choices in life it horrible but a baby can be born and thrown in a corner to die if the mother does not want it and it is ok. God knows what kind of excuses democrats would give for answers to these questions.
They would simply claim ‘systemic racism and white privelege forced him into those bad choices.”
Not guilty.
I can see it happening, grabbing the wrong tool in the heat of the moment, under extreme pressure. basically it means that although she meant to risk using a nonlethal tool to protect herself, she accidentally grabbed her gun. she still needed to defend herself. This is !