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The former police officer who killed Daunte Wright was convicted of manslaughter, after drawing her gun instead of her Taser in a traffic stop.

Thursday, December 23, 2021 2:39 PM EST

The jury of 12 took more than 27 hours over four days to reach the unanimous guilty verdicts for Kimberly Potter, a 49-year-old white woman who testified that she had never fired her gun on the police force in Brooklyn Center, Minn., until April 11, when she shot a single bullet into the chest of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who had been driving to a carwash.

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