Brooklyn Center, Minnesota Police officer Kim Potter in 2007.
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Kim Potter, the Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright, will be charged with second-degree manslaughter for his killing, a prosecutor stated Wednesday.
Potter resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department on Tuesday, alongside with the division’s chief, as a result of of the controversial shooting, which occurred Sunday afternoon.
Wright’s demise, which occurred as he fled a police site visitors cease, heightened tensions that had been already excessive in and round Minneapolis, the place one other former police officer, Derek Chauvin, is on trial for the alleged homicide of George Floyd final yr.
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