In accordance with Brooklyn Center Police Department policies, Potter – who not present at the time of the shooting – gave instructions to the two officers involved in the shooting to get into different police cars, turn off their body cameras and not speak to each other. The use of deadly force by police in that incident was ruled lawful, the report states. In 2019, police fatally shot a man who was threatening his grandfather with a knife and hammer.
The BCA said additional personnel information is not public under state law during the investigation of the shooting.Ī county attorney’s report states this was not Potter’s first time dealing with the aftermath of a police officer shooting someone. She was placed on administrative leave after Sunday’s shooting. She served as the police union’s president in 2019, had been on the department’s negotiation team and worked as field training officer, the Tribune reported. She joined the department in 1995, according to the Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis. Potter, 48, was with the Brooklyn Center Police Department for 26 years, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Officer Kim Potter submitted her resignation after the fatal shooting. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension examined Potter’s duty belt and found her handgun is holstered on the right side of her belt, while the Taser is on the left side, according to a news release from Orput’s office.Ĭiting a criminal complaint, the news release said the Taser is yellow with a black grip and is set in a straight-draw position, “meaning Potter would have to use her left hand to pull the Taser out of its holster.” Wright with a single bullet.” The fatal shooting appeared to be “an accidental discharge,” he said. Gannon said “the officer had the intention to deploy their Taser, but instead shot Mr. Potter’s body camera video was released after the shootingįormer Police Chief Tim Gannon, who also submitted his resignation after the shooting, said at the time the portion of the released body-worn camera footage led him to believe the shooting was accidental and that Potter’s actions before the shooting were consistent with the department’s training on Tasers. The killing Sunday was at least the third high-profile death of a Black man during a police encounter in the Minneapolis area in the past five years, after the shooting of Philando Castile in Falcon Heights in 2016 and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May.
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The shooting and the demonstrations occurred about 10 miles from the Minneapolis courtroom where former officer Derek Chauvin is on trial in the death of George Floyd last year. Potter has been charged with second-degree manslaughter, according to a news release from Washington County Attorney Pete Orput’s office. Wright was killed by Officer Kim Potter during a routine traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, according to police. 'How do we put life back together after this?' Daunte Wright's family mourns a young man killed by police (AP Photo/John Minchillo) John Minchillo/AP
Daunte Wright, 20, was shot and killed by police Sunday after a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minn. She said Khamo recently got a FOID card and gun because he was getting worried about crime in the area.Katie Wright, center, mother of Daunte Wright, speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in Minneapolis. You took our father," his daughter Sally Khamo said. "Shoot him for what? For what? The hundred dollars that was in the register? For what, for the beer? You took a person's life. in the 6300-block of North Western Avenue when someone walked in with a handgun and demanded money, CPD said. Khamo was working behind the counter of J and K Food and Liquor about 9:50 p.m. He died just before 11:45 p.m., the office said. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office identified the victim as 66-year-old Salim Khamo. Family held a vigil for the beloved father and grandfather Tuesday night, after police released more information about the suspect in his death.ĬHICAGO (WLS) - Chicago police released photos of a suspect in the case of a store clerk and beloved father and grandfather who was killed in an attempted robbery at a West Rogers Park liquor store Monday night, Chicago police said.
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