Kim Potter, Ex-Officer Charged Over Daunte Wright s Death, To Appear in Court
On 5/17/21 at 7:33 AM EDT
The former Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black father, is due to appear in court via videoconference on Monday.
Kim Potter, 48, a white former police officer in Brooklyn Center, will have her pre-trial hearing on Monday afternoon at Hennepin County District Court. The hearing will go over evidence and determine if there s probable cause for the case to proceed.
Wright, a father of a young child, was shot in the chest on April 11 after he was pulled over for a traffic stop. Potter resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department shortly after the shooting on April 11, before being charged with second-degree manslaughter, an offense that carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years.