WATCH: Kim Potter Video Trial, ex-officer who killed Daunte Wright: Kim Potter has been charged with first-degree manslaughter over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright who is age 20, this has happened in Minnesota in the month of April this year, the news is coming from Washington, a US former police officer on trial for the death of a young African-American man has wept in court. On Friday, she described how the routine traffic stop descended swiftly into chaos, Kim Potter is at the age of 49, he has been charged with first-degree manslaughter over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright at the age of 20 in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis in Minnesota, this happened in the month of April last year. Follow More Update On GetIndiaNews.com
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She has claimed that the shooting has been an accident, she mistakenly grabbed her gun instead of her Taser. We were struggling, we were trying to keep them from driving away. And then it just went chaotic, I remember yelling ‘Taser Taser Taser.’ And nothing happens, then he told me I shot him,” this has been stated by Potter who burst into tears. She further stated, “They have an ambulance for me and I don’t know why. And then I went, then I was at the station. I don’t remember a lot of things afterward,” On Sunday dating to 11th April 2021, the white policewoman who was patrolling with the colleague who decided to look up the driver of a white Buick which had committed a minor traffic violation.
After the realization that the driver was the subject of an arrest warrant, the police officers decided to arrest him, Potter has described it as a potentially dangerous situation, she told the court, “Sometimes there are guns in the car. Sometimes there are uncooperative people, you don’t know who you’re stopping,”
The death of Floyd has sparked nationwide protests against racism and police brutality, Wright’s death has also triggered numerous nights of protests and unrest in Brooklyn Center before Potter’s own arrest calmed tensions, Potter’s lawyer, Paul Engh, argued that Wright’s death was a result of human error and the stress that his client was under, maintaining that she was attempting to protect a fellow officer as Wright tried to drive off.
For the prosecutor Erin Eldridge, Wright did die because of Potter’s reckless handling of her weapon and the negligence of an officer with 26 years on the force. Ben Crump is the lawyer of Wright’s family, this has been stated in a statement which was shown by the Potter’s testimony showed that “Daunte Wright’s killing at Potter’s hands was absolutely preventable.”
