Crime & Justice

Police Chief, Veteran Cop Who Shot and Killed Daunte Wright Both Quit

‘a lot of chaos’

Kim Potter, the white police officer who fatally shot Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, had been with the Brooklyn Center Police Department for 26 years.

Pilar Melendez
Pilar Melendez 

Senior National Reporter

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Pilar Melendez

Pilar Melendez

Senior National Reporter

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