Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter was sentenced to two years in prison by a Minnesota judge on Friday for fatally shooting 20-year-old Daunte Wright as she yelled “Taser” during a traffic stop turned arrest in April 2021.
Potter was convicted in December of first-degree murder based on reckless use/handling of a firearm and second-degree murder for fatally shooting Wright.
The sentence is a significant downward deviation from what state sentencing guidelines recommend for someone with no criminal record, like Potter. The guidelines give the judge the power to sentence offenders without a criminal record to between 6 and 8.5 years in prison, with a presumed sentence of 86 months.
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