Prosecutors are seeking a seven-year prison sentence for Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop last year, according to court documents.
The state attorney general’s office, which is prosecuting the case, argued in the sentencing memorandum filed Tuesday that the presumptive sentence of 86 months under state guidelines is the right one.
“The degree of Defendant Potter’s recklessness in handling her firearm and causing Daunte Wright’s death cannot be excused or even minimized,” the document submitted by Attorney General Keith Ellison says.because of expired license plate tags and an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror, officials have said. Police have said they discovered an outstanding warrant and tried to arrest him and that Wright tried to flee before he was shot.
Potter’s attorneys have also argued in another motion that Wright escalated the situation by trying to flee from police and that a victim’s conduct is grounds for a sentence reduction. Prosecutors in the state’s sentencing memorandum rejected that as trying to blame Wright for his own death. Prosecutors said Wright was not violent and that he pulled away from an officer in an attempt to drive away, that Potter escalated to a high level of force when the situation was under control, and that her recklessness led to his death., who was also Black, by a white police officer in Minneapolis. Floyd's death sparked widespread protests.
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