Kim Potter, Ex-Officer Charged Over Daunte Wright s Death, To Appear in Court
On 5/17/21 at 7:33 AM EDT
The former Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black father, is due to appear in court via videoconference on Monday.
Kim Potter, 48, a white former police officer in Brooklyn Center, will have her pre-trial hearing on Monday afternoon at Hennepin County District Court. The hearing will go over evidence and determine if there s probable cause for the case to proceed.
Wright, a father of a young child, was shot in the chest on April 11 after he was pulled over for a traffic stop. Potter resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department shortly after the shooting on April 11, before being charged with second-degree manslaughter, an offense that carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years.
MINNEAPOLIS
A former suburban Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright is scheduled to appear in court via videoconference Monday.
Former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter has an omnibus hearing, also known as a pretrial hearing, Monday afternoon in Hennepin County District Court. The purpose of such a hearing is to go over evidence and determine if there’s probable cause for the case to proceed.
Wright, the Black father of a young son, was killed April 11 after a traffic stop. The former Brooklyn Center police chief has said he believes Potter, who is white, meant to use her Taser on Wright instead of her handgun. Body-camera video shows her shouting, “Taser!” multiple times before firing. The shooting ignited days of unrest. Wright’s family members and protesters had wanted prosecutors to file murder charges.
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