wright, last april. potter, a 26-year-old police veteran was training other offices, when she pulled wright over. an outstanding warrant there, was a brief struggle. body cam footage shows potter repeatedly yelling the word taser, as she pulled out her firearm, and shot dante wright once in the chest, killing him. potter claimed the shooting was an accident, but a jury found or guilty of first and second degree manslaughter. kim potter now faces up to 15 years in prison. the judge ordered her held in custody, without bail, until sensitively, in mid february. henderson, and he joins me, now. david, i think a lot of people were somewhat surprised by this outcome. not necessarily and the facts, as stated, and the leniency, or charitable interpretation, that juries tend to give police officers.
were with her. because of kim potter, others will serve time in prison. this has been an emotional time for the community here in minneapolis. soon after the verdict was read, we heard loud cheers. there is a group of demonstrators, and some of them are from minnesota, others from outside of the state, but they applauded. you could hear them applauding. i traded a few texts just moments ago with dante s older brother, and i asked him his thoughts about the verdict. he responded with one word. he said, good. prior to the start of this trial, i spoke with him in kenosha. he was there supporting other victims, and he told me, adrian, i m nervous. i don t know what s going to happen. i am nervous. this has been really hard on my family. and this week, tomorrow is christmas eve.
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but we fought for this. i was pregnant and got shot in my stomach by rubber pellets. we fought for this. reporter: you got emotional when you heard the word guilty. why is that? justice. justice. because he s not here. he got the justice he deserved because he didn t deserve to be killed. but with this verdict, it s showing that he got his justice. reporter: and that phrase justice for dante wright is the main rallying call here. this is representative of a number of signs that we ve seen here over the course of this. they want that face and name to be the central peeliece of all this, and kim potter was the center of the trial that stretched for weeks, but
the family is preparing to spend their first christmas together without dante, and that s something erin aldrich reminded the jury during her closing arguments. she told members of the jury that the defendant, kimberly potter, testified her sons would be home for christmas but there woulding would be an empty seat at the table in the wright household. they held their head low as that verdict was read, and the defense attorney, earl gray, visibly upset, sitting down burying his head in his hands. po poppy? adrian, thank you for that reporting, and before i get to the rest of our legal team and our reporters, i want to pull up for our viewers a picture of dante wright, a picture taken with his son who was just two years old when dante wright was killed at the hands of police in april. he was, again, pulled over for an air freshener hanging in