He takes aim at Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man, with what he believes is a stun gun. “Taser, taser, taser. Oh shit! I just shot him.”, says the agent shortly after.
The police itself Kim Potter He says it: he shot him with his service pistol, not an electric one. Now, she has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Kim Potter gulps and lowers his head. LDaunte’s mother, she says, couldn’t help crying.
Excitement unleashed on the street. Daunte was killed on April 11, in full trial against the policeman who asphyxiated George Floyd, and in the same city. His death sparked protests.
Daunte, to which stopped for a minor traffic violationHe was not armed and did not pose a threat to the officers.
The agent is considered to have been negligent and reckless. He said he confused his firearm with the electric pistol, much more cumbersome and heavy. A verdict says the prosecutor, which serves to render accounts. “Redemption of accounts is not justice. Justice is reparation”says Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s attorney general.
Having no record, The agent faces between 6 and 8 and a half years in jail.
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