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This image provided by the Minnesota Department of Corrections shows Kim Potter. The former Brooklyn Center police officer is scheduled to be released from prison on Monday.

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The former Minnesota officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright will be freed Monday

9:50am April 22, 2023

by The Associated Press

Kim Potter, who was convicted of manslaughter after mistaking her handgun for a Taser in the 2021 incident, is set to be released from prison after serving 16 months. Daunte Wright was 20 years old.

Katie Wright (center) stands beside activist Toshira Garraway and her son, Damik Bryant, during a news conference on Thursday outside a police station in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Katie Wright, the mother of Daunte Wright, said she was injured while she was

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Daunte Wright's mother was detained after recording a traffic stop

2:06pm May 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

Daunte Wright was fatally shot last year by a suburban Minneapolis police officer. Katie Wright says she was injured while she was briefly detained this week by one of the same department's officers.

Former Brooklyn Center, Minn., officer Kim Potter is convicted of manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright last last year.

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Kim Potter, the ex-cop convicted in Daunte Wright's death, is sentenced to 2 years

3:18pm February 18, 2022

by Becky Sullivan

The former Minnesota officer was convicted of manslaughter after she apparently mistook her gun for her Taser when she fatally shot the 20-year-old Black man. She will serve 16 months in prison.

Naisha Wright, aunt of Daunte Wright, pauses after speaking during a news conference in April, in Minneapolis. Wright tells NPR that true justice would be to bring Daunte Wright back, but that Potter's conviction provides accountability.

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Daunte Wright's aunt says Kim Potter's conviction is 'bittersweet'

1:28pm December 24, 2021

by James Doubek

Family members says they're happy about the guilty verdict for the former police officer, who fatally shot Wright in April. But they say it's not true justice.

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In this screengrab from police bodycam footage shown in court on Dec. 10 in the trial of Kim Potter, the Brooklyn Center police officer reacts after the April 11 traffic stop in which Daunte Wright was fatally shot.

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Kim Potter is found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright

3:58pm December 23, 2021

The former Minnesota police officer appeared to mistakenly draw her firearm instead of her Taser when she fatally shot the 20-year-old Black man during a traffic stop in April.

Former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter testifies in court on Friday at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Potter is charged with first and second-degree manslaughter in the April 11 shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Blac

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The jury begins deliberations in Kim Potter's trial over the killing of Daunte Wright

2:28pm December 20, 2021

by Laurel Wamsley

Attorneys have made their closing arguments in the case of the former Minnesota police officer, who fatally killed Daunte Wright. The case is now in the hands of the jury.

A screen grab of police body cam video shown in court at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis shows former police officer Kim Potter after a traffic stop in which Daunte Wright was shot.

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Kim Potter describes officers' struggle with Daunte Wright before she shot him

4:10pm December 17, 2021

by Becky Sullivan

The former Minnesota officer on trial in the shooting death of Daunte Wright said she believed he was trying to flee an arrest. Defense lawyers say that fleeing would have endangered a fellow officer.

Kim Potter, a former Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer, has said she meant to use a Taser instead of a handgun when she shot and killed Daunte Wright on April 11.

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Kim Potter's trial in Daunte Wright's death will have a mostly white jury

3:02pm December 03, 2021

by The Associated Press

Potter, a white former police officer, says she drew her gun by mistake when she fatally shot Wright, a Black motorist. Of the first 12 jurors seated, one identifies as Black and two as Asian.

A Minnesota judge has ruled that probable cause exists to support the charge of second-degree manslaughter against former Brooklyn Center officer Kim Potter, pictured above, in the killing of Daunte Wright.

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Judge Eyes Dec. 6 Trial Date For Ex-Cop Charged In Daunte Wright Killing

3:58pm May 17, 2021

by Matt Sepic

A Minnesota judge says there is enough probable cause for a trial to proceed against Kim Potter, who faces second-degree manslaughter for shooting Wright during a traffic stop in April.

Family images play on a screen before funeral services for Daunte Wright at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis on Thursday.

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'He Was A Prince': Grief And Anger At Daunte Wright's Funeral In Minneapolis

4:11pm April 22, 2021

by Becky Sullivan

Mourners gathered to pay their respects to Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man shot dead by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minn., earlier this month.