Former police officer Kim Potter, wearing 26 years working for the Minnesota Police Department , was the one who operated the weapon that killed the young African-American Daunte Wright
For: EFE
For: EFE
The police officer who shot the young African-American man in the chest Daunte Wright last Sunday during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, will face charges of involuntary manslaughter in the second degree.
Washington County Attorney Pete Orput announced the charges Wednesday.
which occurred very close to the center of Minneapolis, where George Floyd was assassinated last year.
W right, from 20 years old, died on Sunday aboard the vehicle he was driving, when, during a traffic control, Potter allegedly accidentally opened fire on him, police said Monday.
the day before his resignation, Gannon explained that the white agent wanted to use a gun known as a “taser” to immobilize Wright, but he got confused and fired with his weapon of fire a bullet that ended the man’s life.
In a video of the agent’s body camera, revealed by the police force itself, a voice can be heard female, that of Potter, exclaiming the word “taser” before pulling the trigger.
Then the same voice is heard saying: “Shit, I just shot him” , as Wright’s car drives away before crashing e.
Wright’s family and their legal team have already outright rejected the police version , ruling out that it is an “accident”.
“ I can’t accept that. I lost my son. It will never come back. This police officer has been in the body for more than years. I can’t accept that, “said Aubrey Wright, Daunte’s father, on ABC’s” Good Morning America “on Tuesday.
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