Kimberly Potter, the officer in Daunte Wright shooting arrested, to be charged with manslaughter nypost.com
Kimberly Potter, the 48-year-old former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright after mistakenly drawing her gun instead of her Taser, has been arrested. She was arrested on Wednesday and will be charged with second-degree manslaughter, state prosecutors said.
“Agents with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) this morning arrested a former Brooklyn Center police officer for the April 11 shooting death of Daunte Wright,” the state agency Tweeted.
“Agents took Kim Potter into custody at approximately 11:30 a.m. at the BCA in St. Paul.”
The BCA said that “after consultation” with Washington County prosecutors, Potter will be booked at the Hennepin County Jail, according to The Post.
Agents with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) this morning arrested a former a Brooklyn Center police officer for the April 11 shooting death of Daunte Wright. Agents took Kim Potter into custody at approximately 11:30 a.m. at the BCA in St. Paul.
— Minnesota BCA (@MnDPS_BCA) April 14, 2021
Potter’s arrest came a day after she resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department and three days after her shooting of the 20-year-old Black man.
Wright’s death, which occurred as he fled a police traffic stop, heightened already-high tensions in and around Minneapolis due to the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for last year’s killing of George Floyd.
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