Ex-cop Potter guilty of manslaughter awaits sentencing
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A Hennepin County jury on Thursday found ex-Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter guilty of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the April 11 traffic stop killing of Daunte Wright.
Judge Regina Chu turned aside defense requests to allow Potter to be free on bail until the expected sentencing on Feb. 18., telling the court, “I cannot treat this case any differently than any other case.”
Potter, who had listened calmly as the verdicts were read aloud, was led out of the court in handcuffs. She faces about seven years in prison on the most serious count under the state’s sentencing guidelines, but prosecutors said they would seek a longer term.
“We have a degree of accountability for Daunte’s death,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said after the verdicts came down.
“Accountability is not justice. Justice would be restoring Daunte to life and making the Wright family whole again. But accountability is an important step,” said Ellison, whose office prosecuted Potter.
Ellison urged law enforcement not to be discouraged by the verdicts. “When a member of your profession is held accountable, it does not diminish you. It shows that those of you who enforce the law are also willing to live by it, and that’s a good thing.” [Continue Reading] | |
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What judge will weigh in sentencing Kimberly Potter in Daunte Wright's killing: The former Brooklyn Park police officer convicted Thursday of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the April shooting death of Daunte Wright will be sentenced in February. Here is how that might play out.
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