Manslaughter of the second degree. Kim Potter, the policewoman who killed 20-year-old African American Daunte Wright in Minneapolis, was arrested and taken to a cell. According to Tim Gannon, the Brooklyn Center police chief who resigned yesterday, from the analysis of the video recorded by Potter’s body cam, the policewoman would have accidentally fired the gun, believing that she was using the Taser to immobilize the boy during the arrest.
The tension caused by the tragic event, even today, had registered new tensions. A group of protesters gathered to protest right outside Kim Potter’s home in Chaplin, a center near the Minneapolis suburb where the dramatic incident took place. Law enforcement had already erected concrete barriers and metal fences to protect the house, with a few patrol officers watching, and the policewoman, as a precaution, was not at home.
Second-degree manslaughter indictment in Minnesota is triggered when authorities believe the death was caused by “culpable negligence on the part of a person who created an unreasonable risk or consciously took actions that resulted in death. or serious damage to another person “. The penalty can be up to 10 years in prison and a fine of 20 thousand dollars.