Watch Live: Kim Potter faces sentencing for killing Daunte Wright
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Former police officer Kim Potter is scheduled to be sentenced Friday for fatally shooting Daunte Wright during a traffic stop last year in a Minneapolis suburb. Potter was convicted of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in December.
According to prosecutors, Potter, 49, faces a presumptive sentence of just over seven years under state guidelines. Her attorneys have asked for a lesser sentence or just probation, CBS Minnesota reports.
Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was pulled over in Brooklyn Center in April for having expired license plate tags and an air freshener hanging from his vehicle's rearview mirror. When Potter, who is White, and another officer tried to arrest him on an outstanding warrant, Wright got back into the driver's seat.
