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Former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter who fatally shot Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb on April 11 was found guilty Thursday of first-. Daunte Wright victims mom faults violent offender MPD in shooting that left son disabled Daunte Wright and Caleb Livingston had.

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Kim Potter 49 is charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting Daunte Wright a 20-year-old Black man during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center Minnesota in April.

. Daunte Wright has been identified as the 20-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by police after a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center Minnesota sparking protests. Kim Potter the former Minnesota police officer who authorities said meant to draw her Taser instead of her handgun when she fatally shot Daunte Wright on Friday became the final witness to take the stand in her manslaughter trial. Daunte Wright 20 was shot after the officer meant to use a Taser but mistakenly drew her gun instead Chief Tim Gannon told reporters.

Daunte Demetrius Wright was a 20-year-old living in Minneapolis having recently moved there from Chicago. A police official says the suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright with her handgun when she said she meant to use her Taser had been fully trained in. He was the son of a Black father and a White mother.

Daunte Wright has been remembered by friends as upbeat and gregarious someone who loved to play basketball and was a supportive father to his son Daunte Jr who was a year old when Mr. Potter sobbed at several points in her testimony as she recalled and watched body camera. Wrights father said that Wright had dropped out of high school about two years earlier due to a learning disability and that he had been working in retail and fast-food jobs to support his almost-two-year-old son.

Daunte Wright was stopped for expired plates but driving while Black may have been his crime as he became the latest African American motorist to die. Kim Potter trial. Updated December 17 2021 at 424 PM ET.

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