Barricades Built Around Ex-Officer Kim Potter's House

MINNESOTA — Fencing and concrete barricades have been built around the home of former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter after authorities identified her as the person who fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop Sunday.

Potter, 48, does not live in Brooklyn Center but a different suburb of Minneapolis with her husband, a former Fridley police officer, according to the Star Tribune.

Potter will face a charge of second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Wright, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. If convicted, Potter faces up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.

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Potter was the officer heard in body-camera footage who yelling "Taser" several times before shooting Wright, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. She resigned from the Brooklyn Center police force Tuesday after spending 26 years with the department.

Potter meant to draw and shoot her Taser but instead fired a round into Wright, Tim Gannon said Monday before resigning Tuesday.

"This was an accidental discharge," he said during Monday's news conference. No gun was found on Wright or in his car, Gannon noted.

The shooting happened as the region was already on edge over the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd.

More than 60 people were arrested Tuesday night as civil unrest continued in Brooklyn Center over the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright. The majority of the activity took place in front of the city's police department headquarters.

Col. Matt Langer, head of the Minnesota State Patrol, said at a midnight news conference that arrests were made after demonstrators "started with the activities that lead toward a riot."
As night fell, the situation "devolved," Langer said, and protesters threw bricks, rocks, bottles, and other objects at officers working to enforce the city's curfew.

Fireworks and laser pointers were also used, according to Langer. "Dispersal orders were certainly adhered to by some, but not everybody."

Langer said arrests were then made for "riot and other criminal behaviors."

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