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  1. Dec 21, 2021 · After closing arguments concluded on Monday in the trial of Kimberly Potter, a former police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, jurors began deliberations in...

  2. Feb 18, 2022 · The former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she killed Daunte Wright was sentenced Friday to 24 months in prison for manslaughter.

  3. Former Minnesota officer Kimberly Potter has been released from prison after serving 16 months of a two-year sentence in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, whom she shot after mistaking her...

  4. Dec 23, 2021 · Dec. 23, 2021. MINNEAPOLIS — The former police officer who said she mistook her gun for her Taser when she fatally shot a man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb was convicted of two...

  5. Dec 24, 2021 · Former Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter, who is white, is charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting of Wright, a Black motorist, in the suburb of Brooklyn Center. Potter has said she meant to use her Taser – but grabbed her handgun instead – after Wright tried to drive away as officers were trying to arrest him.

  6. Dec 23, 2021 · The second-degree manslaughter charge alleged that she caused his death “by her culpable negligence,” meaning that Potter “caused an unreasonable risk and consciously took a chance of causing death or great bodily harm” to Wright, while using or possessing a firearm.

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  8. Dec 23, 2021 · A Minnesota jury convicted Kimberly Potter, a former police officer, on two felony manslaughter charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in April.