NBC News: Kim Potter, ex-Minnesota officer, found guilty of manslaughter in death of Daunte Wright
A Minneapolis jury on Thursday convicted former police officer Kim Potter on all charges she faced for fatally shooting Black motorist Daunte Wright earlier this year.
The Hennepin County panel found Potter guilty of first-degree manslaughter, meaning she improperly used “such force and violence that death of or great bodily harm to any person was reasonably foreseeable.”
Jurors also found the white former officer guilty of second-degree manslaughter charge, which only required a finding of “culpable negligence” that created “unreasonable risk, and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another.”
Former Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter has been found guilty of first- and second-degree manslaughter for shooting and killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright.
Potter had claimed she mistakenly used her gun instead of Taser. pic.twitter.com/T1gQC7u4ld
— The Recount (@therecount) December 23, 2021
BREAKING: The jury found ex-cop Kim Potter guilty of manslaughter in the police killing of #DaunteWright.
She faces a maximum 15 years in prison for her most serious charge. pic.twitter.com/7hKN4dJlfy— AJ+ (@ajplus) December 23, 2021