The white Minnesota police officer, Kimberly Potter,  who fatally shot Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, after mistaking her gun for her taser, will be charged with second-degree manslaughter on Wednesday. She could face up to 10 years in jail.

After nights of unrest, the officer and the police chief both resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department but that still leaves them free to join another police force.

 

Unrest in Minneapolis.

When they pulled over Wright’s car, the police said it was because he had an expired registration on his car and ‘something hanging from his rearview mirror,’ and when they ran his plates they discovered he had a warrant out for his arrest.

When officers tried to handcuff him, Wright escaped and jumped back in his car. That’s when Potter yelled “Taser” three times before firing a bullet into his chest, killing him. “I just shot him,” Ms. Potter says in body-camera footage that was released this week.