will you please state and spell your name. diamond wright. diamond wright. thank you. my name is diamond wright. i m the second youngest sister. i never thought i d be standing here doing this or my brother would be killed. sorry. would be killed by the same people we re supposed to be protected by. i know the charge is manslaughter but i believe this should be called murder. ever since my brother was killed, my heart has been shattered and the only thing if putting it back together is the memories we shared. i feel like i ve been in a complete nightmare. stopped eating and even got depressed. the death of a loved one is not only an emotional pain but also a physical pain.
one could ever fill. it broke our hearts to lose you but you did not go alone. i promise to my family that i will take care of everybody including our siblings, dallas, monica, and of course your baby, daunte jr. i respectfully ask the court to give the sentence that counts for the severe pain and loss that your family experienced. thank you so much for giving us the opportunity, rest in peace, daunte wright. diamond great? please come forward. diamond wright, please come forward, will you please state and spell your name?
to her and mouth, if not anything, the words i m sorry. and she didn t get that. while potter was on the stand testifying in her own defense, she never referred to daunte wright by his name. she only called him the driver. that hurt the family. reminded the judge today and kimberly potter that their son, their nephew, their brother was a human. he was someone they all loved. and something that was striking to me, abby, and i m paraphrasing here, we heard from diamond wright, that s one of daunte wright s sisters. he s sibling of many. she mentioned when her brother was alive, they talked about the killing of george floyd and they were with their mother, daunte, diamond and saying and i m paraphrasing here, that they hope their whiteness would protect them. that they wouldn t be a target by police. but she said today that wasn t the case.
and our hearts a place that no one could ever feel. it broke our heart to lose you but you didn t go alone, for part of us was with you when god called you home. i promise to my family that i would take care of everybody including our siblings, dallas, destiny, diamond, monica, marcus and your baby daunte jr. y i cannot express how painful it was to see the defendant smiling in mug shot immediately after being convicted of killing our brother. i ask a strong sentence to account for the severe pain and loss that our family has experienced. thank you so much for giving me this opportunity. rest in peace, daunte wright. thank you. diamond wright. please come forward.
diamond wright, d-i-a-m-o-n-d, wright. hi, i would never thought buy brother would be killed. sorry would be killed by the same people we were supposed to feel protected by. i know that the charges man slaughter but i believe should be called murdered. ever since my brother has been killed, my heart has been shattered. i have been living in a nightmare, i stop eating and even got depressed. the death of a loved one is not only emotional pain but also physical pain. the defendant should be prosecuted and sentenced to the highest extent. you can t tell me this was an