Crime & Justice

Ex-Cop Kim Potter Pins Start of Fatal Daunte Wright Stop on Fellow Officer

ON THE STAND

The former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer took the stand on Friday to tell her side about what happened before she shot and killed the 20-year-old Black man.

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Kim Potter, the white former suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright in April after allegedly mistaking her handgun for a Taser during a traffic stop, testified in her own defense on Friday.

Potter, a 49-year-old who resigned from the Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, force over the shooting of the...

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