Key Moments in the Kimberly Potter Trial Over Daunte Wright’s Death
The New York Times
After a week and a half of testimony, closing arguments are expected on Monday in the Minnesota case.
As Daunte Wright lay mortally wounded in the driver’s seat of his car, the police officer who had fired a single bullet into his chest collapsed on the side of the road, sobbing as she explained that she had thought she was holding her Taser. “I’m going to go to prison,” she said, on video captured at the scene in April.
Jurors will soon decide the fate of the officer, Kimberly Potter, after hearing from 33 witnesses over the last week and a half in a Minneapolis courtroom. Ms. Potter faces charges of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter, and a conviction on either count would likely send her to prison for several years. Closing arguments are expected on Monday.
Ms. Potter, 49, who is white, resigned from the police force in Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb, two days after the fatal shooting of Mr. Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was driving to get his car washed.
