Daunte Wright's mother said the justice system "murdered him all over again" after ex-cop <keyword id="12635247" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kim-potter" source="Orion">Kim Potter</keyword>, who is white, was sentenced to 2 years for the young Black man's killing. "This is the problem with our justice system today," Katie Bryant <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzxMhrXnqTA">said at a press conference</a>. "White women tears trump justice." Former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter was sentenced to at least 16 months in prison on Friday. She faces an additional 8 months on her sentence but could be released from prison on probation for good behavior. In December, a jury <a href="https://www.insider.com/kim-potter-guilty-manslaughter-trial-daunte-wright-shooting-verdict-2021-12">convicted</a> Potter of manslaughter for the killing of Daunte Wright in April 2021.Potter shot the 20-year-old Black man in the chest during a traffic stop and claimed at trial that she meant to grab her Taser instead of her gun. Prosecutors had argued that her Taser was holstered on the opposite side of her body.Bryant said she felt like the justice system "murdered" her son "all over again" at a press conference after the sentencing."To sit there and pouring my heart out in my victim impact statement that took so long to write, and I rewrote it over and over again, to not get a response out of the judge but then when it came down to sentencing Kim Potter, she broke out in tears," Bryant said at the press conference.Wright's father called the sentence a "slap on the wrist." At the press conference, Arbuey Wright said the family felt "tricked.""It gave us a little sense of hope, like, you know, things were gonna get a little bit better, but now, I walked out of this courthouse feeling like people are laughing at us because this lady got a slap on the wrist," he said. "And we're still, every night, sitting around crying, waiting for my son to come home."Arbuey Wright told reporters that it felt like the justice system "was so tied up" in Potter's feelings that it "forgot" that his son was killed.Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents the family, said at the press conference that people in Minnesota have been sentenced to longer prison terms for selling marijuana than the sentence Potter received for Wright's killing. Crump said he told Wright's family that he thought they would be able to receive "equal justice" before the trial, but they were skeptical. "We tried to encourage them to believe that there is equal justice in America, but when we have sentences like this, it makes it difficult to make those arguments," Crump said at the press conference.

Daunte Wright's mother said the justice system 'murdered him all over again' after ex-cop Kim Potter gets 2-year sentence

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A <keyword id="12353342" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="prosecutor" source="Orion">prosecutor</keyword> ripped former police officer <keyword id="12635247" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kim-potter" source="Orion">Kim Potter</keyword>'s "wrong gun" defense in opening statements of the ex-cop's manslaughter <keyword id="11899412" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trial" source="Orion">trial</keyword>.</li><li>Potter faces manslaughter charges for the shooting death of Daunte Wright in April.</li></ul>Prosecutor Erin Eldridge blasted former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter's "wrong gun" defense in opening statements of the ex-cop's manslaughter trial on Wednesday. Potter, who is white, <a href="https://www.insider.com/prosecutors-dont-need-to-prove-kim-potter-meant-to-kill-daunte-wright-2021-11">faces charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter</a> for the <a href="https://www.insider.com/daunte-wrights-teacher-speaks-out-ahead-of-kim-potter-trial-2021-11">shooting death of Daunte Wright</a>, a Black man, in April 2021.Potter has pleaded not guilty to both charges, claiming she accidentally grabbed her gun instead of her Taser, which was holstered on the opposite side of her body.But Eldridge told the jury, "There's no do-over when you take a young man's life.""We expect [police officers] not to betray their badge and we expect them to uphold their oath," the prosecutor said in <keyword id="11893066" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="court" source="Orion">court</keyword>. "We trust them to know wrong from right — and left from right. This case is about an officer who knew not to get it dead wrong. But she failed to get it right"Potter and her partner pulled Wright and his girlfriend over for driving with an expired license plate in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on April 11, and tried to arrest him after learning that he had a warrant out for his arrest on a different charge, police say. Body camera footage of the traffic stop shows Potter shooting Wright in the chest while shouting "taser!" after Wright tried to get back into his car. Potter has claimed that she thought she reached for her taser instead of her gun during the shooting.Eldridge emphasized Potter's training during opening statements and claimed that Potter "flouted her training and flouted police policy" during the shooting.According to Eldridge, Potter knew how and when to use both her gun and her taser in different situations. Eldridge said that officers in Brooklyn Center are trained not to use a taser if it could cause injury to others, including the use of a taser on someone who is operating a vehicle."Mere flight from a pursuing officer is not good cause for the use of a taser," Eldridge told the jury.Eldridge also claimed that Potter had been trained that tasers are "serious weapons and should be treated as such." Potter, who is right-handed, carried her gun on the right side of her belt, and her taser on her left, according to Eldridge.Eldridge also said Potter received training going back as far as 2016 that said, "if you're right-handed and you carry your taser on the dominant side, they instructed their trainees there's a higher risk of weapon confusion."Jury selection concluded in the trial on December 3 with Potter's defense and the prosecution selecting <a href="https://www.insider.com/jurors-selected-for-kim-potter-manslaughter-trial-2021-12">a mostly white jury.</a> Nine of the 12 jurors are white, one is Black, and two identify as Asian, according to the Hennepin County District Court. Potter <a href="https://www.insider.com/kim-potter-will-testify-at-manslaughter-trial-attorney-says-2021-11">is expected to testify</a> in the trial.

Prosecutor rips Kim Potter's 'wrong gun' defense in opening statements at ex-officer's trial in the killing of Daunte Wright

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Cortez Rice was arrested last week after prosecutors charged him with harassing the judge in <keyword id="12635247" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kim-potter" source="Orion">Kim Potter</keyword>'s trial. </li><li>Rice livestreamed a <keyword id="11902710" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="protest" source="Orion">protest</keyword> at a condo that he thought belonged to Judge Regina Chu.</li></ul>A man was arrested on a harassment <keyword id="12683036" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="charge" source="Orion">charge</keyword> after prosecutors alleged that he filmed a protest outside a home where he believed the judge presiding over the <a href="https://www.insider.com/jurors-selected-for-kim-potter-manslaughter-trial-2021-12">Kim Potter trial</a> lived.Potter, a former Minnesota police officer, is on trial for the shooting death of <keyword id="12635248" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="duante-wright" source="Orion">Duante Wright</keyword>, a Black man. Potter, who is white, shot Wright during a traffic stop in April after pulling him over for driving with an expired license plate.The former cop, who is facing charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter, has said that she intended to use her Taser instead of her gun when she shot Wright.Cortez Rice was arrested last week after prosecutors charged him with one count of <keyword id="12019990" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="felony" source="Orion">felony</keyword> harassment involving retaliation against a judicial officer, <a href="https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/daunte-wright/man-arrested-harassing-judge-in-kim-potter-trial-regina-chu-cameras-courtroom/89-f71228ff-df45-4c10-8e73-392598cf94c4">according to KARE 11.</a> Prosecutors detailed in a criminal complaint how Rice livestreamed a protest on November 8 outside a condominium that he believed belonged to Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu, who is presiding over Potter's case."I think this is her crib right here," Rice said in a livestreamed video of the protest outside the condominium, according to the complaint.The complaint also alleges Rice entered the condominium building and went up to the door of a unit on the 12th floor, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-arrested-charged-harassment-case-kim-potter-judge/story?id=81574205">according to ABC News.</a>"We on her heels. What she think (inaudible) we want cameras. The people deserve to know," Rice said on the livestream while outside the door, according to the complaint.Prosecutors alleged that Rice staged the protest as a reaction to Chu's initial decision to not allow cameras in the courtroom for Potter's trial, according to ABC <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">News</keyword>. Chu reversed that decision on November 8 and agreed to let media record, broadcast, and live-stream the proceedings. Chu told investigators that she believed the protest was intended to "intimidate her and to interfere with the judicial process," KARE 11 reported.Rice denied trying to harass the judge in an <a href="https://www.startribune.com/man-charged-with-trying-to-intimidate-judge-in-kimberly-potter-manslaughter-trial/600123585/">interview with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune</a> last month."I don't know why people are saying I was there to intimidate her or anything because that wasn't the case," Rice said, as quoted by the Star-Tribune. "I just made a live video on it and I was just there to make sure she can hear us."Rice is currently being held in jail in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, ABC News reported. Rice's attorney did not respond to ABC News' requests for comment.Jury selection in Potter's trial concluded Friday, and a majority-white jury was seated. The trial is expected to begin on Wednesday with opening statements.

Man charged with harassing judge in Kim Potter's trial after livestreaming outside the door of a condo where he thought she lived

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Six men and six women have been selected to serve on the <keyword id="11899413" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="jury" source="Orion">jury</keyword> in former cop <keyword id="12635247" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kim-potter" source="Orion">Kim Potter</keyword>'s <keyword id="11899412" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trial" source="Orion">trial</keyword>.</li><li>Potter faces <keyword id="12169664" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="manslaughter" source="Orion">manslaughter</keyword> charges for the shooting death of <keyword id="12635248" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="duante-wright" source="Orion">Duante Wright</keyword>, a Black man, in April.</li></ul>After four days of jury selection, six men and six women have been selected to serve on the jury in former <keyword id="11896851" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="minnesota" source="Orion">Minnesota</keyword> police officer Kim Potter's manslaughter trial.Potter faces first- and second-degree manslaughter charges for the <a href="https://www.insider.com/timeline-daunte-wright-police-shooting-body-camera-video-2021-4">death of Duante Wright</a>, a Black man. She has pleaded not guilty.Potter and her partner pulled Wright over in April for <a href="https://www.insider.com/daunte-wright-minnesota-rearview-mirror-law-2021-4">driving with an expired license plate</a> in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis.On <a href="https://www.insider.com/daunte-wright-minnesota-officer-yelled-taser-before-firing-gun-2021-4">body camera footage police</a> released, Potter can be seen shooting Wright in the chest while shouting "Taser!"The trial is expected to start on December 8 and last until December 23. But Judge Regina Chu raised the possibility of starting the trial early to avoid potential conflict with the Christmas holiday.The <keyword id="11893066" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="court" source="Orion">court</keyword> will keep members of the jury anonymous until after the trial concludes in <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/court_rules/cr/id/26/">accordance with Minnesota law</a>. Potential jurors were asked if they had ever been victims of a <keyword id="11893298" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="crime" source="Orion">crime</keyword> and if they were satisfied with how the police handled their complaints if they decided to report the crime.The court dismissed more than a dozen potential jurors from the case.<div type="image" title="In this screen grab from video, former Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter sits at the defense table, center, as Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu presides over jury selection Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, in the trial of Potter in the April 11, 2021, death of Daunte Wright, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn." height="1819" width="3000" msid="88079326" hostid="261"></div><h2>Here's what we know about the jurors selected:</h2><ul><li>A man who works as an editor of a medical publication.</li><li>A woman who is a retired special education teacher. Her daughter died of breast cancer on January 1, 2019, and she's worried she may be emotional during the trial.</li><li>A man who works as an overnight manager at a Target distribution center and plays bass guitar in a rock band that had toured across the United States.</li><li>A woman who said she was concerned about the unrest in Minneapolis following the deaths of George Floyd and Duante Wright.</li><li>A woman who recently graduated from college and said she did not have much understanding of how the legal system works.</li><li>A woman who is a teacher and a mother of two. She said she owns a purple Taser but has never used it and has never taken any training classes for it.</li><li>A man who served as a juror over 10 years ago for a case of "protestors trespassing" and said he enjoyed the experience of serving on a jury.</li><li>A man who works as a nurse and is studying to become a nurse practitioner. His wife is an attorney and she previously worked for the public defender's office.</li><li>A woman who is a full-time student.</li><li>A man who works in IT and previously worked as a teacher and a police officer. He said he gave up his dream job of being a police officer because he was "afraid I'd have to end up using my gun."</li><li>A woman who works in IT. She indicated on her jury questionnaire that she thought Duante Wright "shouldn't have been killed over an expired tag." She told the judge she thinks she can leave her opinions about the case out of her decision-making.</li><li>A man who works as a field systems engineer for a cybersecurity company and enjoys dressing in steel armor and battling his friends with metal weapons on the weekends. He said he thinks there is a problem with systemic racism in the criminal justice system.</li></ul><h2>Here's what we know about the alternates selected:</h2><ul><li>A woman who said she felt sadness over Duante Wright's death. She said she generally trusts the police but "there are occasions where we cannot trust police."</li><li>A man who is the father of a two-year-old.</li></ul><iframe src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/UiFBCxt3-VWaoq3j4.html" width="100%" height="100%" style="position:absolute;" title="WATCH: New bodycam footage shows Minnesota police officer yelled 'Taser!' before firing gun at Daunte Wright"></iframe><h2>Jurors worried about their identities becoming public</h2>Several potential jurors expressed to the judge that they were concerned their identities would become public during or after the trial. The court had to stop live-streaming the trial at one point to question a juror who had been seated because he was upset that his identity had already become public.On the first day of jury selection, Potter's attorney, Earl Gray, referred to a potential juror by his last name and asked him the name of the rock band that he plays in during a line of questioning, making him easily identifiable.<a href="https://twitter.com/LouRaguse/status/1466490166852399108?s=20">According to KARE 11 reporter Lou Raguse</a>, the juror told the court his phone started "blowing up" as soon as he left court on the first day of jury selection. He told the court he wasn't aware that the proceeding was being live-streamed, Raguse reported.The man's company even tried to find him a different place to sleep after his identity became public, KARE 11 reported.Gray apologized to the man and said he hoped that he would not hold the fact that his identity had become public against Potter. The man accepted Gray's apology and said he would not, according to Raguse.<h2>The prosecution used a Batson challenge</h2>Judge Chu rejected a <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/batson_challenge">Batson challenge</a> — an argument that one of the defense's strikes was rooted in discrimination — that the prosecution raised, and allowed the defense to dismiss a potential juror.Potter's defense team used a peremptory challenge to strike a potential juror who was a first-year law school student. The woman said she believed there was a need for criminal justice reform in the United States and the defense questioned her extensively about her opinions on police.The prosecution exercised a Batson challenge after the defense struck the woman from the jury, arguing that the defense's decision was based in discrimination because the potential juror was a young Asian woman.Judge Chu rejected the challenge and noted that two jurors seated on the jury are Asian.

12 jurors have been selected in ex-police officer Kim Potter's trial, including a woman who said Duante Wright 'shouldn't have been killed over an expired tag'

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12635247" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kim-potter" source="Orion">Kim Potter</keyword>'s attorney said the former <keyword id="11896851" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="minnesota" source="Orion">Minnesota</keyword> cop will testify during her manslaughter <keyword id="11899412" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trial" source="Orion">trial</keyword>.</li><li>Potter was charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of <keyword id="12635248" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="duante-wright" source="Orion">Duante Wright</keyword>.</li></ul>Kim Potter's attorney told a potential juror on Tuesday that the former Minnesota <keyword id="11894211" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="police" source="Orion">police</keyword> officer will testify in her manslaughter trial.The white, former Brooklyn Center cop was charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Duante Wright, a Black man.Potter shot Wright during a traffic stop in April after <a href="https://www.insider.com/daunte-wright-minnesota-rearview-mirror-law-2021-4">pulling him over for driving with an expired license plate</a>. Potter and her partner attempted to detain Wright after determining that he had a warrant out for his arrest for not appearing in <keyword id="11893066" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="court" source="Orion">court</keyword> for a previous charge, police say.Potter has claimed that she intended to shoot Wright with her Taser, not her gun, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVH6q0ul72A">body camera footage shows</a> her shouting "Taser!" before shooting Wright in the chest. She has pleaded not guilty.<h2>Jury selection began on Tuesday</h2>Jury selection began on Tuesday in Potter's trial with the prosecution and defense attorneys asking potential jurors various questions about their opinions about police and the <keyword id="11965126" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="black-lives-matter" source="Orion">Black Lives Matter</keyword> movement.One potential juror said their initial reaction when they heard about Wright's killing was, "How can this happen?"Potter's attorney, Paul Engh, told the potential juror that he would "clarify some of those things" and that Potter will testify during the trial.<div type="image" title="Daunte Wright protest" height="1333" width="2000" msid="88018153" hostid="261"></div>"Officer Potter will testify and she will tell you what she remembers happened," Engh told the potential juror. "So, you will know not just from the video, but from the officers at the scene, and officer Potter herself, what was occurring. I think that you'd be quite interested in hearing what she has to say."The potential juror, a retired special education teacher who also taught English to immigrants, was approved by both the prosecution and the defense and was seated on the jury.Potter shot Wright during the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted for the murder of <keyword id="11911209" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="george-floyd" source="Orion">George Floyd</keyword>. Floyd's murder in May 2020 <a href="https://www.insider.com/george-floyd-protests-which-cities-2020-5">sparked racial justice protests</a> that lasted through the summer nationwide.Brooklyn Center is a suburb of the Twin Cities about 10 miles north of the courthouse where Chauvin was on trial. Now Potter is on trial in the same courthouse.Floyd's girlfriend, Courtney Ross, said at a press conference on Tuesday <a href="https://www.insider.com/daunte-wrights-teacher-speaks-out-ahead-of-kim-potter-trial-2021-11">there was "no excuse" for Potter's actions</a>. Ross was also Wright's former teacher at Thomas Edison High School in Minneapolis.Jury selection in Potter's trial will continue on Wednesday and opening statements are expected to start on December 8. The trial is expected to conclude by December 23, Judge Regina Chu said on Tuesday. Potter faces a total of up to 25 years in prison and $50,000 in fines if convicted on both counts.

Kim Potter's attorney says the former Minnesota police officer will testify at her manslaughter trial

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Former Minneapolis police officer <keyword id="12635247" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kim-potter" source="Orion">Kim Potter</keyword>'s <keyword id="12169664" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="manslaughter" source="Orion">manslaughter</keyword> <keyword id="11899412" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trial" source="Orion">trial</keyword> in the death of Daunte Wright begins Tuesday with jury selection.</li><li>Wright's former teacher, Courtney Ross, said Potter "murdered a Black man with no thought."</li></ul>The manslaughter trial of Kim Potter, a former police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, who fatally shot Daunte Wright earlier this year, begins Tuesday. Ahead of the trial, Wright's former teacher, Courtney Ross, said Potter "murdered" Wright "with no thought." "The fact that Kim Potter garnished a weapon for a routine traffic stop when the entire world was looking at racist cops under a microscope proved to me that Kim Potter was so brash and brazen that she murdered a Black man with no thought and she did that admittedly so," Ross said <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz3VIYNqKxo">at a press conference</a> on Monday. Earlier this year, Potter, a white woman, fatally shot Wright, a Black man, during a traffic stop. Wright's death occurred in April, during the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was <a href="https://www.insider.com/derek-chauvin-sentence-george-floyd-murder-2021-6">convicted of murdering George Floyd in May 2020</a>.Potter and her partner had pulled over Wright for driving with a suspended license plate on April 11, and according to police determined that he had a warrant out for his arrest for failing to appear in court for a previous charge. In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVH6q0ul72A">body-camera footage</a> released by police, Potter can be heard shouting, "I'll tase ya. Taser! Taser! Taser!" shortly before shooting Wright in the chest. "Shit, I shot him," Potter can be heard saying.Ross said there was "no excuse" for Potter's "incompetence" to not tell the difference between her gun and her taser and said that she thought Potter had "profiled Black people in Brooklyn Center for a long time and finally lost her temper and murdered Daunte Wright.""Kim Potter was seen as a senior officer and an officer that trained new cadets, a trainer who claimed not to know the difference between a taser and a gun," Ross, who said Wright was her former student at Thomas Edison High School in Minneapolis, told reporters. "In all my years working in education, I never mistook a sticker for a stapler."<div type="image" title="Kim Potter mugshot" height="1842" width="2000" msid="87992930" hostid="261"></div>Ross, who was also Floyd's girlfriend, told reporters she was at a gathering with other people who had lost loved ones to police violence to celebrate a birthday party when she found out that Wright had been killed in April.She said at the press conference that the case following Wright's death was "very dear" to her heart."He was a joy and his smile would light up this room a thousand times," Ross said.<div type="image" title="Duante Wright" height="2673" width="4009" msid="87992931" hostid="261"></div>Wright's mother, Katie Wright, spoke briefly at a press conference and thanked the community for coming together for her family."Everybody who's been there for us, standing with us, on one of the worst days of our life, one of the worst months going forward of our life, we really thank you and we appreciate this," Wright said.Potter faces first and second-degree manslaughter charges, a maximum of up to 25 years in prison, and $50,000 in fines if convicted on both counts.

Daunte Wright's former teacher said ex-police officer Kim Potter was 'so brash and brazen that she murdered a Black man with no thought' ahead of manslaughter trial

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12635247" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kim-potter" source="Orion">Kim Potter</keyword>'s charges mean prosecutors won't have to prove that she intended to kill Daunte Wright.</li><li>The former police officer faces first- and second-degree <keyword id="12169664" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="manslaughter" source="Orion">manslaughter</keyword> charges in Wright's death.</li></ul>Prosecutors in the <keyword id="11899412" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trial" source="Orion">trial</keyword> of Kim Potter, a former police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, would not need to prove that she intended to kill Daunte Wright, a Black man, in order to convict her, based on her criminal charges.Potter, who shot Wright during a traffic stop on April 11, faces charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter. Jury selection for her trial begins on Tuesday.The police in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis, have said that Potter and another officer pulled Wright over for driving with an expired license plate and determined that there was a warrant for his arrest for failing to appear in <keyword id="11893066" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="court" source="Orion">court</keyword> for a previous charge.In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVH6q0ul72A">body-camera footage</a> released by the police, Potter can be heard shouting, "I'll tase ya. Taser! Taser! Taser!" shortly before shooting Wright in the chest. "Shit, I shot him," Potter can be heard saying.Prosecutors initially charged Potter with <a href="https://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-21-7460/Complaint04142021.pdf">second-degree manslaughter</a>, saying in a criminal complaint that through "culpable negligence" she "created an unreasonable risk and consciously took a chance of causing death or great bodily harm" to Wright.<div type="image" title="Kim Potter mugshot" height="1328" width="1771" msid="87990717" hostid="261"></div>The state added the charge of first-degree manslaughter on September 1, accusing Potter of causing Wright's death "while committing the misdemeanor offense of reckless handling or use of a firearm so as to endanger the safety of another with such force and violence that death or great bodily harm to any person was reasonably foreseeable," an <a href="https://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-21-7460/AmendedComplaint09022021.pdf">amended criminal complaint said</a>. That means to convict her on either count, prosecutors <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/11/29/jury-selection-begins-soon-in-excop-potters-trial-here-are-the-charges-she-faces">would not have to prove</a> that Potter intended to kill Wright, only that her actions led to his death.Potter faces up to 15 years in prison for the charge of first-degree manslaughter and up to 10 years for the second-degree charge. She could have to pay up to $50,000 in fines if she's convicted of both charges.Potter shot Wright as witness testimony was ending in the trial of <keyword id="12094692" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="derek-chauvin" source="Orion">Derek Chauvin</keyword>, a former Minneapolis police officer who was <a href="https://www.insider.com/derek-chauvin-sentence-george-floyd-murder-2021-6">convicted of murdering George Floyd in May 2020</a>. Floyd's murder sparked police-brutality and racial-justice protests that lasted through summer 2020.

Prosecutors in Kim Potter's trial don't need to prove that the ex-police officer intended to kill Daunte Wright

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Duante Wright was stopped by police for having an object hanging from his rearview mirror, his mother said.</li><li>Police said officers stopped him over a traffic violation, found he had a preexisting arrest warrant, then shot him as he tried to flee.</li><li>The ACLU said the rearview mirror law is used disproportionately against Black drivers. </li></ul>The family of <a href="https://www.insider.com/protests-flare-in-minneapolis-after-young-black-man-shot-2021-4">Daunte Wright</a>, the 20-year-old Black man who was shot dead by a police officer during a traffic stop on Sunday, has said that a routine traffic violation was what led the police to pull over his vehicle.Wright's mother Katie said that her son called after being pulled over and told her he had been stopped because of "air fresheners hanging from his rearview mirror."The police said that officers in Brooklyn Center, <keyword id="19027" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Minnesota">Minnesota</keyword>, had stopped a driver for a traffic violation on Sunday afternoon, and then found that he had a preexisting arrest warrant. Officers tried to arrest him but he fled in his vehicle, and an officer shot him, the force said.Wright's car continued on for several blocks before it struck another vehicle, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.Wright's death has increased tensions in the area. Minneapolis - which is located about 10 miles from Brooklyn Center - is already <a href="https://www.insider.com/derek-chauvin-trial-minneapolis-police-officer-quit-over-trial-reaction-2021-4">on a knife edge with former police officer Derek Chauvin currently on trial</a> for the killing of George Floyd.The stated rule infraction for which Wright was <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/169.71">pulled over is Minnesota statute 169.71,</a> which prohibits "any objects suspended between the driver and the windshield."Laws about whether items can be hung from a rearview mirror vary from state to state.Most states, including California and Pennsylvania, prohibit drivers from hanging things near the windshield that "materially obstruct" their vision. Some states don't bar drivers from hanging things from the rearview mirror if they don't block the driver's vision. There has long been controversy over how the police use laws such as bans or restrictions on air fresheners and other objects hanging from rearview mirrors. Civil-rights groups say that they are often used by police in ways that disproportionately target nonwhite drivers. <a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/09/03/police-pretext-traffic-stops-need-to-end-some-lawmakers-say">The Pew Research Center</a> has also said that "Black motorists, especially young men, have long noted how often they get stopped for petty traffic or equipment violations - failure to signal, broken license plate light, tinted windows and the like."It's a tactic known as a "pretext stop", with police using a minor traffic law violation as grounds to investigate if the motorist may have committed a more serious <keyword id="39494" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Crime">crime</keyword>. <a href="https://twitter.com/ACLUMN/status/1381448517244362754">In a Sunday tweet</a>, the American Civil Liberties Union's Minnesota branch said it had concerns over the apparent use of the tactic in Wright's case."We have concerns that police appear to have used dangling air fresheners as an excuse for making a pretextual stop, something police do too often to target Black people," the ACLU said. The recent protests in the US over a series of police killings of Black people have renewed scrutiny on "pretext stops" and how they are used. Pew said that police have defended the tactic as "useful for investigating drugs and weapons possession, human trafficking and drunken driving, among other crimes."

Minnesota prohibits dangling items like air fresheners from rearview mirrors, which Daunte Wright's family says was a factor in the traffic stop that killed him

<ul class="summary-list"><li> U.S. Rep Glenn Grothman called <keyword id="5025800" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Cardi-B">Cardi B</keyword>'s "<keyword id="130078" type="TECHNOLOGY" weightage="60" keywordseo="WAP">WAP</keyword>" performance "inconsistent with basic decency."</li><li>The rapper replied, "This gets me so mad ya don't even know!"</li><li>She suggested that state representatives focus on the police brutality issue in America instead. </li></ul>Cardi B has continued to express her frustrations with conservatives who complain about her <a href="https://www.insider.com/megan-thee-stallion-cardi-b-grammys-body-savage-up-wap-2021-3">Grammy Awards performance of "WAP"</a> instead of the persistent social injustice occurring in America.The "Up" rapper logged onto Twitter and responded to a recorded speech GOP lawmaker Glenn Grothman made on the House floor.On Thursday, he informed officials of the complaints he had been receiving from his Wisconsin constituents and claimed Cardi B's Grammys performance was "inconsistent with basic decency.""They wonder why we are paying the FCC if they feel that this should be in living rooms across the nation. I realize that Kamala Harris has used her fame to promote this performer, but I assure the FCC that millions of Americans would view her performance as inconsistent with basic decency," he said.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Molly Beck (@MollyBeck) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1385247983982321665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2021</a></blockquote>Grothman also attacked the Federal Communications Commission and demanded that the commission stop being "utterly complacent" with what it lets go on air, saying "Wake up, FCC, and begin to do your job. The moral decline of America is partly due to your utter complacency."His demand made to the FCC came a week after Rolling Stone reported that <a href="https://www.insider.com/wap-grammys-cardi-b-complaints-fcc-megan-thee-stallion-2021-4">the government agency received over 1,000 complaints</a> regarding Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's performance of "WAP" at the Grammys last month.<div type="image" title="cardi b megan thee stallion grammys" height="1953" width="2604" msid="82224834" hostid="261"></div>Cardi B inquired why the Wisconsin congressman was taking the time to focus on the "indecency" of her month-old performance, suggesting that he should instead be focused on the police killings of Black people, such as George Floyd and, <a href="https://www.insider.com/columbus-police-reveal-identity-of-officer-who-shot-makhia-bryant-2021-4">most recently, 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant.</a>"This gets me so mad ya don't even know! I think we all been on the edge this week since we seen police brutality back to back including watching one of the biggest case in history go down DUE to police brutality," <a href="https://twitter.com/iamcardib/status/1385260386224525315">she said,</a> referencing the conviction of Minnesota police officer <a href="https://www.insider.com/derek-chauvin-verdict-george-floyd-death-2021-4">Derek Chauvin, who was found guilty on Tuesday of murder and manslaughter</a> in George Floyd's death."But wait! This is what state representative decide to talk about," she added.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-iamcardib (@iamcardib) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1385260386224525315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2021</a></blockquote>This isn't the first time the 28-year-old artist has <a href="https://www.insider.com/cardi-b-republicans-call-out-video-police-brutality-daunte-wright-2021-4">called out conservatives</a> for speaking out about her performances, but remaining silent on police brutality. On April 14, she posted a video on Twitter, in which <a href="https://www.insider.com/cardi-b-republicans-call-out-video-police-brutality-daunte-wright-2021-4">she asked "blue check Republicans"</a> why they weren't tweeting about the recent pepper-spraying of Army Lt. Caron Nazario and the recent killing of Duante Wright. "And my thing is, where the f--- are you Twitter blue check Republicans at?" she asked. 'Y'all are the loudest on this motherf---ing app, y'all not saying nothing, y'all not complaining, y'all blame everything with what's wrong in America beside the police. Y'all have been very silent! What's going on?"The following day, she <a href="https://twitter.com/iamcardib/status/1382829539374485505">posted another video</a> continuing to show her dissatisfaction with how police brutality is being handled in the country, saying, "I don't want to argue with anybody. I'm just tired of seeing people get killed over and over again. It's sickening."

Cardi B calls out GOP lawmaker for saying her 'WAP' performance at the Grammys was 'inconsistent with basic decency'

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword> criticized the 2021 Oscars amid record-low ratings in a statement on Tuesday. </li><li>He suggested referring to the show exclusively as the Academy Awards and hiring a host.</li><li>Trump said the "politically correct," "boring" show should revert to its old "formula."</li></ul><a href="https://www.insider.com/category/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> criticized the 93rd annual <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/oscars-2021">Academy Awards</a> in a <a href="https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1387095817861881856">statement</a> released on Tuesday, proposing numerous methods to improve the award show after it received <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/oscars/2021/04/26/oscars-ratings-fall-to-new-record-low/7382836002/">record-breaking low ratings</a>.The former president's suggestions included dropping the term "Oscars" and referring to the award show <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/ampas-drops-85th-academy-awards-now-its-just-oscars-78211/">exclusively as the Academy Awards</a>, hiring a charismatic host, and making the show less "politically correct and boring." "What used to be called The Academy Awards, and now is called the 'Oscars' - a far less important and elegant name - had the lowest Television Ratings in recorded history, even much lower than last year, which set another record low," the statement from the former president begins.It continues, "If they keep with the current ridiculous formula, it will only get worse-if that's possible. Go back 15 years, look at the formula they then used, change the name back to THE ACADEMY AWARDS, don't be so politically correct and boring, and do it right. ALSO, BRING BACK A GREAT HOST."Trump ended the statement by saying that "television people" use the Oscars to "promote" the Democratic Party and "cancel Conservatives and Republicans."<div type="image" title="donald trump" height="1312" width="2000" msid="82283298" hostid="261"></div>The Oscars, which aired on Sunday from Los Angeles' Union Station and the Dolby Theatre without a host for a third consecutive year, drew an audience of 10.3 million viewers, according to <a href="https://deadline.com/2021/04/2021-0scars-tv-ratings-academy-awards-low-abc-disney-1234744135/">Nielsen</a>.There has been a steady dip in viewership in recent years, but <a href="https://deadline.com/2021/04/2021-0scars-tv-ratings-academy-awards-low-abc-disney-1234744135/">Deadline's Dominic Patten</a> reports that this year's show was both the least-watched and lowest-rated Academy Awards ceremony in history. Throughout the show, several figures spoke about racial inequality and police brutality. Regina King opened the evening by <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/regina-king-references-derek-chauvin-verdict-in-oscars-opening">mentioning the Derek Chauvin verdict</a>, while Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe <a href="https://www.cnn.com/style/article/travon-free-martin-desmond-roe-tuxedos-trnd/index.html">wore jackets</a> featuring the names of Black individuals killed by the police, including Duante Wright and Tamir Rice.Trump wasn't the only conservative pundit that felt Sunday's show was too "politically correct." Fox News host Tomi Lahren dedicated time to bash the Oscars the following day. "I, for one, had and have no desire to watch these Trump-deranged Hollywood Liberals grandstand on their soapboxes with useless and bogus virtue signaling," she said during a segment on "<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tomi-lahren-takes-on-2021-oscars-bogus-and-totally-disingenuous-moral-crusade">Final Thoughts</a>."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1386880078408261632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2021</a></blockquote>Prior to releasing his statement on Tuesday, Trump has been a vocal critic of Hollywood's biggest award show.After Bong-Joon Ho's "Parasite" became the first non-English language film in history win best picture in 2020, he <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-drags-parasite-oscars-best-picture-award-south-korea-2020-2">mocked the South Korean movie</a> during one of his political rallies. "The winner is a movie from South Korea! What the hell was that all about? We got enough problems with South Korea with trade. On top of it, they give them the best movie of the year. Was it good? I don't know," he said.Trump added, "Can we get 'Gone With the Wind' back, please?"<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Claudia Koerner (@ClaudiaKoerner) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1230655162139791364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2020</a></blockquote>"Gone With the Wind," a film that won best picture in 1940, has <a href="https://www.insider.com/hbo-max-temporarily-pulls-gone-with-the-wind-racist-depictions-2020-6">since been reexamined for its "racist depictions"</a> of the antebellum South.The movie was temporarily pulled from HBO Max in 2020 after the "12 Years a Slave" screenwriter John Ridley penned an essay in the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-08/hbo-max-racism-gone-with-the-wind-movie">Los Angeles Times</a> about the "painful stereotypes" perpetuated in the movie. HBO Max <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/06/24/gone-wind-returns-hbo-max-disclaimer-videos/3254546001/">readded the film</a> to its platform weeks later with additional videos adding historical context.

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Daunte Wright's mother said the justice system 'murdered him all over again' after ex-cop Kim Potter gets 2-year sentence

Rebecca Cohen,Kenneth Niemeyer

Prosecutor rips Kim Potter's 'wrong gun' defense in opening statements at ex-officer's trial in the killing of Daunte Wright

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Man charged with harassing judge in Kim Potter's trial after livestreaming outside the door of a condo where he thought she lived

Kenneth Niemeyer

12 jurors have been selected in ex-police officer Kim Potter's trial, including a woman who said Duante Wright 'shouldn't have been killed over an expired tag'

Kenneth Niemeyer

Kim Potter's attorney says the former Minnesota police officer will testify at her manslaughter trial

Kenneth Niemeyer

Daunte Wright's former teacher said ex-police officer Kim Potter was 'so brash and brazen that she murdered a Black man with no thought' ahead of manslaughter trial

Kenneth Niemeyer

Prosecutors in Kim Potter's trial don't need to prove that the ex-police officer intended to kill Daunte Wright

Kenneth Niemeyer

Minnesota prohibits dangling items like air fresheners from rearview mirrors, which Daunte Wright's family says was a factor in the traffic stop that killed him

Tom Porter

Cardi B calls out GOP lawmaker for saying her 'WAP' performance at the Grammys was 'inconsistent with basic decency'

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Donald Trump ridicules Oscars amid low ratings, calling the award show 'politically correct and boring'

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