kim potter left our world with so much darkness and heartache and only compared his loss to the feeling that a parent feels when they lose their child at a grocery store, except she feels that every day. his father calling daunte my son to do better and noting that kim potter was a police officer longer than my son was alive. and then also to hear from the mother of his 2-year-old son saying i am a single mother not by choice but by force, all of this, adrian, the judge taking in as she considers and announcing this sentencing. yeah, she will be taking it into consideration, those statements from daunte wright s family. chyna whitaker, the mother of daunte wright s son, through pictures and memories. katie bryant, emotional as she shared memories about her son never referring to kim potter by
rises to criminality, but you also have to, you know, as i said, it goes both ways. the judge is going to take a look at those, what happened afterwards, is going to take a look at the reaction, but it s hard to say unless you ve been there, how you would react, and i will say, as a person who has felt the loss of a family member to gun violence, you know, sometimes you feel there s no amount of apology that will be enough for a family member. yeah. and it shouldn t be. as we heard, daunte s family say, he s never coming back and even if kim potter receives the maximum sentence, she does have a future to hold and talk to her family in ways they obviously can t with their son. we may be hearing from kim potter herself in the minutes ahead here in her sentencing hearing. we will bring you that as it happens, but in the meantime, i want to thank our guests and we ll take a quick break and
come forward. state your full name and spell it, please. my name is aubrey wright. you said spell it? yes. i m sorry. w-r-i-g-h-t. i am kind of nervous but i m da daunte s father. i want to start by telling you what daunte meant to me. daunte meant the world to me. unconditional love we had for each other. da daunte was every man s dream. first child with my wife and a boy, so proud to be his father. he was and as many, he was my son, he was my prince.
the defendant should be prosecuted and sentenced to the highest extent. you can t tell me this was an accident. it s in plain sight. she s been a police officer longer than my brother has been alive. how come i have to go see my brother in a metal container to talk to him and pray my brother hears me cry out to him, how come my family has to groan and moan about loss of a loved one because the defendants were actually reckless? daunte was my brother, my blood. someone who was supposed to grow old with me. how is it i m going to see the age of 21 and he didn t? he didn t get to experience the life he was supposed to. watch his kids and parents grow old and not many of you know daunte and couldn t care less what anyone else thinks of him. you don t know him. he could light up a whole stadium with his smile and laugh. i miss him stealing food of my
he was used to spending time with his father. oftentimes held stay the night with his dad and that gave me a chance to have a break when i need it. and now i can t even pick up the phone to call him. due to this situation, my son is a lot more scattered and angry. he acts up a lot more. i now have him in school to learn and socialize with other children to cope during this difficult time in our lives. my child will no longer have the opportunity to spend birthdays or holidays with his dad. daunte will never get to see his son s first day of preschool, elementary, high school or college.