The former Minnesota police officer fatally shot the 20-year-old Black motorist when she mistakenly reached for her handgun instead of her Taser.
Potter, who resigned after the incident, had always admitted to the shooting but had been adamant that it was an accident during a police encounter that was quickly spiraling out of control and for which she did not deserve to go to prison. “I’m sorry it happened. I’m so sorry,” PotterKim Potter became emotional as she testified in court last week.
Wright had been on his way to a car wash when Potter and a junior officer she was training pulled him over after noticing he had expired tags and an air freshener hanging from the rearview mirror, a violation ofPotter testified that had she been alone she would likely not have stopped Wright, saying that an air freshener was a minor violation and that people were having trouble updating their registrations at the DMV due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Learning of the gun charge, Potter said, made her and her fellow officers wary that Wright might have a weapon on him. However, she conceded in court that she did not see any weapon in Wright’s possession and that he never threatened or punched her or her fellow officers. She tearfully recalled in court how Wright had been on the phone with his mother when he was shot, and how Albrecht-Payton tried in vain to save his life.
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