Kim Potter sentenced to 2 years for killing Daunte Wright
Former Brooklyn Center, Minn., Police Officer Kim Potter, who was convicted of manslaughter in December, was sentenced to two years in prison for fatally shooting Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop near Minneapolis in April 2021.
Video Transcript
- Miss Potter, will you please rise? Given all these considerations, and having carefully considered the comments of the family of both Daunte Wright, and the comments of Kimberly Potter, as well as the arguments of counsel, it is the sentence and judgment of this court that you shall be committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Corrections for a period of 24 months.
You shall serve two-thirds of that time, or 16 months in prison, and a third on supervised release, assuming no disciplinary-- disciplinary offenses.
