After 27 hours of deliberations, all 12 jurors in the Minneapolis court – the same court where Derek Chubin was convicted of the murder of George Floyd – ruled that Kimberly Potter (49) was guilty of first-degree murder of Dante Wright (20), an offense that states ” It was expected that there would be death or serious bodily injury with the use of force and violence. ” In addition, she was convicted of second-degree murder for negligence. Potter faces up to 15 years in prison.
The incident took place on April 11 in Brooklyn Center on the outskirts of Minneapolis, just 20 miles from where Floyd was killed a year earlier. Active, and when they tried to handcuff him, Wright tried to get into his car.
Potter warned that she would use a teaser against him, but instead she pulled out her Glock pistol and fired and as a result he was killed. Videos from the scene showed Potter holding the gun for five seconds before opening fire, then realizing she had used the wrong weapon and fell to the ground crying and saying she was going to jail.
In her testimony last week, Potter claimed she feared for her partner’s safety. “We tried to prevent Mariette from driving. Everything was chaotic,” said the former policewoman, who admitted that she had never shot her gun before and had not activated the taser gun.
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