Former Minnesota Police Officer Kim Potter Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Death of Daunte Wright – Faces Up to 15 Years in Prison
Kim Potter, the Brooklyn Center police officer who fatally shot black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop was arrested and charged with first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in April.
After 26 hours of deliberations, a Minneapolis jury found the former Minnesota police officer guilty on both charges.
Potter faces up to 15 years in prison.
NBC News reported:
A Minneapolis jury on Thursday convicted former police officer Kim Potter on all charges she faced for fatally shooting Black motorist Daunte Wright earlier this year.
The Hennepin County panel found Potter guilty of first-degree manslaughter, meaning she improperly used “such force and violence that death of or great bodily harm to any person was reasonably foreseeable.”
Jurors also found the white former officer guilty of second-degree manslaughter charge,
