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Office of AG Keith Ellison will lead prosecution against Kim Potter, officer charged in Daunte Wright s death
Activists and Wright s family had requested Ellison s office handle the prosecution.
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Hennepin County Jail
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has taken over the prosecution of Kimberly Potter, the now-former Brooklyn Center police officer who is charged in the death of Daunte Wright.
Ellison accepted Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman s request to prosecute the case after Washington County Attorney Pete Orput charged Potter with second-degree manslaughter, per an agreement between metro county attorneys, and returned the case to Hennepin County. “The Attorney General, the Washington County Attorney, and I are following the protocol the five urban county attorneys signed last summer, which includes asking the Attorney General to take police use of deadly force cases. The Potter case is now appropriately in the hands of the Attorney General, Free