In news just in, former Minnesota policewoman Kim Potter has been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright.
Potter may have tearfully apologized during her testimony last week in her trial for killing Wright, but the woeful speech wasn’t enough to sway jurors who returned a guilty verdict for 1st and 2nd degree manslaughter charges Thursday (December 23).
The first degree manslaughter charge suggests the use of “such force and violence that death of or great bodily harm to any person was reasonably foreseeable,” while the second degree charge required proving “culpable negligence” that created “unreasonable risk, and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another.”
Potter faces up to 15 years in prison for the offense.
As has been previously reported, Daunte, a 20-year-old Black man, was fatally shot during a traffic stop in Minnesota as police attempted to apprehend him on weapons charges. Since the incident and even throughout the trial, Kim maintained his shooting death was an accident as she allegedly intended to pull her taser instead of the gun that killed him.