{"id":18427,"date":"2021-04-15T00:55:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T04:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=18427"},"modified":"2021-04-15T00:55:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T04:55:36","slug":"daunte-wright-shooting-ex-officer-kim-potter-charged-over-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/04\/15\/daunte-wright-shooting-ex-officer-kim-potter-charged-over-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Daunte Wright shooting: Ex-officer Kim Potter charged over killing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A white former police officer who shot dead a black motorist in Minnesota has been charged with second-degree manslaughter, prosecutors say.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kim Potter was arrested and later released on $100,000 (\u00a372,000) bail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police say Mrs Potter shot Daunte Wright accidentally, having mistakenly drawn her gun instead of her Taser.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Responding to the charges, the Wright family’s lawyer Ben Crump said the killing was an “intentional, deliberate, and unlawful use of force”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Both Mrs Potter and local police chief Tim Gannon have resigned.\u00a0The killing has sparked clashes between police and protesters<\/a>\u00a0in Brooklyn Center – a suburb of Minneapolis – and late on Wednesday, several hundred demonstrators again defied a curfew to gather outside police headquarters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pepper spray was used against protesters outside police headquarters in Brooklyn Center (Image: Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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As on previous nights, protesters threw bottles and other projectiles at police who responded with stun grenades and pepper spray.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Minneapolis is already on edge amid\u00a0the trial of a white ex-police officer<\/a>\u00a0accused of murdering African-American George Floyd.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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