Kim Potter, the suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser, was convicted of manslaughter Thursday in the death of 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright. Potter was found 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.” She said she accidentally killed Wright by shooting him with her Glock when she meant to fire her Taser. https://youtu.be/Ejq558jEyvU?t=40 More from NBC News:
Jurors also found Potter guilty of second-degree manslaughter, which required a finding of only “culpable negligence” that created “unreasonable risk, and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another.”
It took the sequestered panel more than 27 hours of talks since Monday afternoon to arrive at the verdicts.
Potter, 49, who faces a maximum of 15 years in prison, is scheduled for sentencing Feb. 18.
According to some reports, the standard sentence is around 7 years.
The trial was not about whether Kim Potter mistakenly drew her gun instead of her Taser — all sides agreed that the shooting was an accident — but rather whether the mistake was so reckless as to be a crime. Twelve jurors decided it was.https://t.co/nMfHAQWhyd
— Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs (@NickAtNews) December 24, 2021
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