Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright in 2021, will be released from prison on Monday, officials say, after 16 months. She will serve another eight months on supervised release.
"We were trying to keep him from driving away. It just, it just went chaotic. ... And then, I remember yelling, ‘Taser. Taser. Taser.’ And nothing happened. And then, he told me, I shot him,” she said.
The fatal shooting triggered a new wave of outrage over police brutality and institutional racism as Wright's death came just a year after theWright was gunned down just about 10 miles north of the courthouse where former Minneapolis police officerPotter’s sentence was significantly less than the 86 months prosecutors had pushed for — prompting Wright's mother, Katie Wright, to say after the sentencing, “the justice system murdered him all over again.
Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu said at the time that Potter deserved less because she was trying to use her Taser and not her gun.Potter was ordered to serve two-thirds of her sentence in custody and one-third on supervised release, with credit for 58 days already served.
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