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Video: Brooklyn Center officer grabs phone from Daunte Wright's mother as she records traffic stop

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (FOX 9) - Videos show a Brooklyn Center police officer grabbing the wrist of Daunte Wright's mother while she was recording a traffic stop Wednesday evening.Katie Wright, the mother of the 20-year-old fatally shot by Brooklyn Center police during a traffic stop last April, says she pulled over on the shoulder of Highway 252 to take video after seeing a large police presence around a single vehicle across the median on the other side of the highway.She began live streaming on Facebook from her phone, showing multiple police cars with lights activated on the shoulder as cars passed by.

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Kim Potter sentencing in Daunte Wright's death: Ex-officer sentenced to 2 years

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter was sentenced Friday morning to two years in prison after a jury found her guilty of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in the April 2021 shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.Presiding Judge Regina Chu said there was no question that Potter is extremely remorseful when she announced a downward departure from state guidelines with a total sentence of 24 months, with 16 months served in prison, and the remaining on supervised release. Potter will receive credit for 58 days served. Kim Potter addresses the family of Daunte Wright during her sentencing in Hennepin County Court.Chu said she found the facts and circumstances of the case justified a downward departure from state guidelines.

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Kim Potter sentencing: Ex-officer sentenced to 2 years in Daunte Wright's death

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter was sentenced Friday morning to two years in prison after a jury found her guilty of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in the April 2021 shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.Presiding Judge Regina Chu said there was no question that Potter is extremely remorseful when she announced a downward departure from state guidelines with a total sentence of 24 months, with 16 months served in prison, and the remaining on supervised release. Potter will receive credit for 58 days served. Chu said she found the facts and circumstances of the case justified a downward departure from state guidelines.

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Kim Potter Verdict: Daunte Wright's family responds to guilty verdict

guilty verdict of former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter, who was found guilty of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in the deadly traffic stop shooting of Wright.The family of Daunte Wright celebrates outside the Hennepin County Courthouse after the verdict was announced in the trial of former police officer Kim Potter in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on December 23, 2021.

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Kim Potter trial verdict: Guilty on all counts

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - A Hennepin County jury found former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter guilty of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in the deadly traffic stop shooting of Daunte Wright. She is now the third police officer to be found guilty on charges related to an on-duty death in the state of Minnesota.Potter was immediately taken into custody and will be held without bail.

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Kim Potter trial: 'Outcome' reached, will be read between 1:30-2 PM CT

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The jury has reached an "outcome" in the trial of Kim Potter for the deadly shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black man, during a traffic stop earlier this year. The trial outcome will be read between 1:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. CT. FOX 9 will broadcast the reading live on air and streaming at fox9.com/live. The former Brooklyn Center police officer’s trial began on Nov.

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Kim Potter trial: Jury deliberations head to 4th day

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The jury in the Kim Potter trial is heading to a fourth day of deliberations as they decide whether to convict the former Brooklyn Center police officer of manslaughter in the shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black man, during a traffic stop earlier this year. The former Brooklyn Center police officer’s trial began on Nov. 30 with jury selection.

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Kim Potter trial: Closing arguments begin Monday

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Closing arguments began Monday morning in the trial of Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer accused of shooting and killing Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop earlier this year. FOX 9 is streaming the Potter trial live, gavel to gavel, at fox9.com/live and on theFOX 9 YouTube channel and the FOX 9 News App.Aftering gaveling in on Monday morning, Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu delivered instructions to the jury.

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Kim Potter trial: Potter testifies on Daunte Wright shooting

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black man, during traffic stop earlier this year is expected to take the stand Friday morning to testify in her own defense.Court will resume at 9 a.m. CT.

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Kim Potter trial for Daunte Wright shooting: What to know

Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter has been charged with first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright. MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The manslaughter trial of Kimberly Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer charged in the deadly shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, begins on Tuesday, Nov.

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Kim Potter trial: Prosecutors to continue calling witnesses Tuesday

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Prosecutors will continue calling witnesses Tuesday morning in the trial of Kim Potter as they try to poke holes in the former Brooklyn Center police officer’s claim that she mistook her gun for her Taser when she fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop last year.Court is expected 9 a.m. CT.

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Kim Potter trial live: Testimony enters second week

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The trial of Kim Potter, the Brooklyn Center police officer charged in the killing of Daunte Wright, enters its second week, with Day 4 of testimony in Minneapolis. The former Brooklyn Center police officer is charged with manslaughter in the killing of Daunte Wright for firing her gun instead of her taser.

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Kim Potter trial: Third day of witness testimony begins Friday

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Witness testimony resumes Friday in the trial of Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black man, during a traffic stop earlier this year. FOX 9 is streaming the Potter trial live, gavel to gavel, at fox9.com/live and on theFOX 9 YouTube channel and the FOX 9 News App.What to expect FridayIn addition to autopsy photos and testimony from the medical examiner, we anticipate jurors will hear from Officer Mychal Johnson, the third police officer at the traffic stop scene.

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Kim Potter trial: Daunte Wright's girlfriend, responding officers testify

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Day two of testimony has wrapped up in the trial of Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black man, during a traffic stop earlier this year.

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Kim Potter trial live: Daunte Wright's girlfriend to testify

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Day two of testimony begins at 9 a.m. CT in the trial of Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black man, during a traffic stop earlier this year. Thursday, Daunte Wright's girlfriend, Alayna Albrecht-Payton, who was in the car with him during the fatal police stop is expected to testify.

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Kim Potter trial: Opening statements in Daunte Wright case begin

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Opening statements begin Wednesday in the trial of Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer charged with manslaughter in the deadly shooting of Daunte Wright.Court is expected to resume at 9 a.m. CT in the same courtroom where Derek Chauvin was convicted of George Floyd's murder.

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Kim Potter trial: Jury selection enters third day, 10 jurors seated

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Jury selection entered a third day Thursday in the trial of Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright. The jury is quickly coming together with 10 jurors--five women and four men--now seated in three days. Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu wants 12 jurors and two alternates before opening statements, which are scheduled to begin on Wednesday, Dec.

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Kim Potter trial: 9 jurors seated after 2nd day of jury selection

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Jury selection continued Wednesday in the trial of Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright. Eleven potential jurors were interviewed on Tuesday, with four of them chosen to be on the jury. Five more jurors were selected on Wednesday, making the total seated nine.Judge Regina Chu wants 12 jurors and two alternates before opening statements next week.

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Kim Potter trial: Jury selection begins Tuesday

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter will go on trial Tuesday for shooting and killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop earlier this year.Jury selection begins at 9 a.m. in the same courtroom where Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd earlier this year.

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Attorney General takes over prosecution of Kim Potter for Daunte Wright shooting death

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (FOX 9) - Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is taking over the prosecution of former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter for the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright.Ellison's handling of the case will include a review of the criminal charges.

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Prosecutor in Daunte Wright's death not swayed by critics

MINNEAPOLIS – The day Daunte Wright was laid to rest, a small group of demonstrators gathered outside prosecutor Pete Orput's suburban home and, with microphones and a loudspeaker, demanded he file murder charges against the police officer who killed the 20-year-old Black motorist.

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Daunte Wright to be eulogized at Minneapolis funeral

MINNEAPOLIS – Just days after guilty verdicts were handed down for the former Minneapolis police officer whose killing of George Floyd set off nationwide protests and a reckoning over racism, the family of another Black man killed by police, this time in a nearby suburb, is preparing for his Thursday funeral.

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52 booked for probable cause riot after Brooklyn Center, Minnesota protests on Friday

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - At least 52 people were booked late Friday night into early Saturday morning on probable cause riot charges at the Hennepin County Jail while 136 in total were arrested, as the sixth night of protests turned violent in Brooklyn Center.The arrest came as a crowd numbering in the hundreds gathered outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department to protests the police shooting of Daunte Wright. Wright was killed following a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center when an arresting officer apparently mistook her firearm for her Taser.Of the people booked, nearly all have listed addresses in the Twin Cities while only one had a Brooklyn Center listed address.

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In Minneapolis, armed patrol group tries to keep the peace

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. – As protests intensified in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright, a group of Black men joined the crowd intent on keeping the peace and preventing protests from escalating into violence.

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EXPLAINER: Can cops stop drivers for hanging air fresheners?

The mother of a 20-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by Minnesota police this week says it all started when police pulled her son over for having air fresheners hanging from his rearview mirror.

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Daunte Wright's funeral to be held April 22 in Minneapolis

Daunte Wright (Daunte Wright family)MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Ben Crump, the attorney representing the family of Daunte Wright, confirmed Wright's funeral will be held next week at a church in Minneapolis.Wright died on Sunday after a Brooklyn Center police officer shot him with a handgun at a traffic stop.

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Daunte Wright's family calls for 'highest accountability' for ex-officer

Naisha Wright, the aunt of Daunte Wright who was fatally shot by police, holds up images of a Taser and a handgun at a press conference. MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Members of Daunte Wright's family stood alongside their attorney Thursday afternoon calling for accountability and the conviction of the former officer charged in Wright's death.Ex-Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter is charged with second-degree manslaughter after she fatally shooting Wright at a traffic stop on Sunday afternoon.

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Daunte Wright, slain by police, known as jokester, young dad

MINNEAPOLIS – A few years ago, Daunte Wright was talking to a high school mentor about what to do if he was pulled over by police.

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Daunte Wright: Doting dad, basket player, slain by police

Daunte Wright became a father while he was still a teenager, and seemed to relish the role of a doting young dad, his family and friends said.

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EXPLAINER: Why outside prosecutors review killings by police

BOSTON – A white former police officer is being charged with second-degree manslaughter in the killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, just three days after the Black man was shot during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb.

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Daunte Wright shooting charges: Second-degree manslaughter

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota police officer Kimberly Potter is being charged with second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, Washington County Attorney Pete Orput confirmed Wednesday morning. Orput told FOX 9 he met with the family of Daunte Wright this morning to explain the charge and expressed his deep condolences. Potter was arrested by agents with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension at 11:30 a.m.

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Decision expected on charges for cop who shot Black motorist

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. – Prosecutors expect to decide Wednesday whether to charge the white former police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb, sparking nights of protests and raising tensions amid the nearby murder trial of the ex-officer charged with killing George Floyd.

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Brooklyn Center police chief, officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright both resign

Brooklyn Center, MN., Thursday, 5/31/2007. Officer Kim Potter, part of the Brooklyn Center Police negotiation team.

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Daunte Wright shooting: Live update from Brooklyn Center, Minnesota

Daunte Wright (Daunte Wright family)(FOX 9) - The City of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota is holding a news conference at 11:30 a.m. CT at city hall to provide an update on the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter.

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Kim Potter identified as officer who shot Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center

BRUCE BISPING ¬• [email protected] Brooklyn Center, MN., Thursday, 5/31/2007. Officer Kim Potter, part of the Brooklyn Center Police negotiation team.

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