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Kim Potter's Accidental-Shooting Trial Could Have Chilling Effect on Cops

Members of Visual Black Justice install art outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Nov. 30, 2021. (KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)

By    |   Thursday, 24 February 2022 06:49 AM EST

The two-year prison sentence handed down Friday to former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter for the accidental but fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop has law enforcement officials concerned about a potential chilling effect on cops nationwide.

Potter, a seasoned police officer who had no complaints on her record during 26 years on the force, confused her handgun for her Taser before firing at the 20-year-old Black motorist for resisting officers who pulled him over in a Minneapolis suburb last April. Potter was found guilty of first- and second-degree manslaughter.

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