Jurors reached a verdict Thursday and found the former Minneapolis police officer guilty of two counts in the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man who was shot and killed during a traffic control, mistaking his stun gun. with the real one.
["Everything turned into chaos": the ex-officer who killed Daunte Wright at a traffic control breaks down in tears as she testifies]
The jury, made up mostly of white people, delivered for four days.
Potter, 49, faces about seven years in jail on the most serious charge, but prosecutors say they will seek more time.
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During a hearing last Friday, Potter burst into tears and apologized as he recalled the "chaotic" moments of the fatal shooting in which Wright died.
["Everything turned into chaos": the ex-officer who killed Daunte Wright at a traffic control breaks down in tears as she testifies]
Potter and other officers from the Brooklyn Police Department had an exchange with Wright at a traffic stop.
The incident escalated when the young man was asked to get out of his white Buick car, the ex-cop testified.
Potter added that he had indicated to Wright that he had a pending warrant for a violation related to the possession or use of weapons and that then he, who was already out of the vehicle, about to be arrested, drove away and tried to return to the car. , prompting a fight with Sergeant Mychal Johnson.
