The manslaughter trial of Kimberly Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer charged in the deadly shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, begins on Tuesday, Nov. 30.
The murder of Daunte Wright and the class issues in the fight against police violence
Tuesday marked the third night of expanding protests over the police murder of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protests began shortly after Wright was killed during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon and spread across the country Monday, from New York City to Portland, Oregon.
Wright, a young father, was unarmed when he was shot dead. He was killed by Kimberly Potter, a 26-year-veteran officer and head of the Brooklyn Center Police Union, who fired a single shot into his chest. Wright’s mother, Katie Wright, told reporters that her son’s body had been left on the ground by the police. “Nobody will tell us anything. Nobody will talk to us. I said please take my son off the ground.”
Approximately 2.4 million people in the four Minnesota counties encompassing the Minneapolis–St. Paul region were placed under a 7 p.m. curfew Monday night.
Protests lasted for hours in Brooklyn Center, Minn., where 20-year-old Black man Daunte Wright died after being shot by police Sunday. Image: Evan Frost/MPR News
Updated April 12, 2021 at 10:44 PM ET
The police officer said to have fatally shot Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man killed in what started as a traffic stop, has been identified as Kim Potter.
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in a statement on Monday evening described Potter as a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center, Minn., Police Department, who is now on administrative leave.
The department offered no other details about Potter s career, saying, Further personnel data are not public from the BCA under Minnesota law during an active investigation.
Daunte Wright shooting: Live update from Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
By FOX 9 Staff
(Daunte Wright family)
(FOX 9) - The City of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota is holding a news conference at city hall to provide an update on the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter.
Watch live at at fox9.com/live or tap the player below to join the stream.
The shooting of Daunte Wright has led to multiple days of protests, violence and looting in the Twin Cities metro. The shooting comes in the middle of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd. The Brooklyn Center Police Department released body camera video on Monday, saying that the officer involved believed she was reaching for her taser and instead fired her gun.