Former police officer Kim Potter, who fatally shot 20-year-old African-American man Daunte Wright in the US state of Minnesota, will be charged with second-degree manslaughter for the killing, a prosecutor said.On Wednesday, Washington County .
Ex-officer charged with 2nd-degree manslaughter in Daunte Wright killing
An ex-police officer who shot and killed a Black man in a Minneapolis suburb after a traffic stop has been arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter, authorities said Wednesday.
Kim Potter, who resigned as a Brooklyn Center police officer this week,is charged in Sunday’s shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, Washington County Attorney Pete Orput said. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office determined Wright died of a gunshot wound and the death was a homicide.
Potter was arrested late Wednesday morning by agents with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the bureau said. She was booked into the Hennepin County Jail, online records show.
Manslaughter charge in Daunte Wright’s death is a ‘good initial step,’ family lawyer says, as ex-officer is due in court
The family of Daunte Wright the Black motorist shot and killed by a Minnesota police officer during an arrest attempt last weekend sees a manslaughter charge filed against the officer as a “good initial step” toward justice, a lawyer for the relatives said Thursday.
Wright’s mother Katie, however, later questioned whether even justice would be enough.
“Unfortunately there’s never going to be justice for us,” she told reporters Thursday.
Would justice “bring our son home to us, knocking on the door with his big smile coming in the house, sitting down eating dinner with us, going out to lunch, playing with his one-year-old, almost-two-year-old son, giving them a kiss before he walks out the door,” she added. “So justice isn’t even a word to me.”