Ex-police officer sentenced
The former suburban Minneapolis police officer convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting
Daunte Wright during a traffic stop last April was sentenced to two years in prison in a Hennepin County courtroom Friday.
A Hennepin County jury in late December found Kim Potter guilty of firstand second-degree manslaughter for shooting Wright, a 20-year-old unarmed Black man, in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. Potter, who is White, claimed she mistook her gun for a Taser when she fired on Wright to stop him from driving away.
Hennepin County Judge Regina M. Chu on Friday called the case “one of the saddest cases I’ve had in my 20 years on the bench.”