Police chief, officer resign two days after Black motorist killed

Daunte Wright was shot during a traffic stop by officer who says she mistakenly grabbed her gun instead of her taser.

The chief of police and the patrol officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of the United States city of Minneapolis, resigned on Tuesday. Police Chief Tim Gannon and Officer Kim Potter both resigned two days after the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, the mayor of the town said at a news conference on Tuesday. Potter is a white woman and Wright was a Black man. His death has sparked two nights of protests and unrest in Brooklyn Center, which is just a few miles from Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020.