Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter will be charged with second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright. Washington County Attorney Pete Orput relayed the charges to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune Wednesday morning, three days after Wright was shot during a traffic stop. While Wright’s death occurred in Hennepin County, it was referred to nearby Washington County to avoid a conflict of interest in the.
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Police shooting of Daunte Wright puts spotlight on pretextual arrest laws Christopher Wilson
The killing of a 20-year-old Minnesota man during a traffic stop Sunday has drawn attention to so-called pretextual arrests, which allow police to pull vehicles over for minor traffic violations and then investigate unrelated crimes.
Daunte Wright was shot by a police officer Sunday afternoon in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center after officials say they pulled him over for an expired registration on his vehicle. When they approached the car, they saw he had something hanging from his rearview mirror, and after running his name they found an outstanding warrant. Body camera footage released Monday showed an officer shooting Wright as he tried to get back into his car.