my heart out in my victim impact statement that took so long to write and i rewrote it over and over again, to not get a response out of the judge at all, but then when it came to sentencing kim potter she broke out in tears. joining us is maya wiley, a former chair of new york city civilian complaint review board and nbc news legal analyst, what do you make of this sentencing? well, first and foremost let s start with the fact that, yes, this is a tragedy, this is horrible. it s also why prosecutors charged kim potter with second degree manslaughter. in other words they made a choice about whether to indict her and charge her but also what they would indict and charge her for that took into account the facts and circumstances around her killing of daunte and here s
i m upset. the emotions are real. you just heard the father of daunte wright aubrey wright and his mother katie speaking tearfully, painfully about the loss of their son and a sentence of two years handed down to kim potter, the police officer who killed him in a traffic stop. we have cnn s adrienne broaddus back with us. we were just discussing how painful this has all been for the family. and you heard daunte wright s father there saying we thought we would get a little justice, and we didn t. they are clearly still hurting. what is next for this community? that is the big question. community leaders that i ve been in touch with say this sentence is a smack in the face. leslie redman is the former president of the naacp in
emotional and apologizing in court today to the wright s family. to the family of daunte wright i am so sorry that i brought the death of your son. father, brother, uncle, grandson, nephew, and the rest of your family. i am so sorry that i hurt you so badly. to the community of brooklyn center i do owe you an apology too. i loved working for you. and i am sorry what has happened to our community since the death of daunte. again, in the rare cases where these type of police brutality allegations or killings are prosecuted, we have often seen officers, ex-officers at that point, be less contrite so that statement there was striking and wanted to share it with you as well. intent matters in this type of
tied up into her feelings and what s going on with her that they forgot about my son being killed. a life was tooken. and it s just sad to say that i feel like we was tricked. we was limited on everything on what they would say, i feel like and it s just sad that our justice system you know, we actually thought we was going to get a little justice. you know, nothing could ease our mind from daunte being killed, but just the fact of knowing that this lady was going to pay for that, it gave us a little sense of hope like, you know, things were going to get a little better. but now, i walk out of this courthouse feeling like people are laughing at us because this lady got a slap on the wrist and we still every night sitting around crying, waiting on my son to come home.
potentially killing a law enforcement officer, in assumedself defense. i cannot imagine judicial eye motion would flow so freely in that case. i think we can both imagine that a maximum sentence would. your response, counselor? well, reverend, first of all, thank you for giving a history lesson at amir s funeral. we know the no-knock warrants are disproportionately instituted against black people. what happens daunte wright it is just so disappointing reverend sharpton, when you think about the judge that s less than most black people who were convicted for selling marijuana that is not legal in