It was reported by MSN that a prosecutor on Monday urged jurors to hold a former Minnesota police officer criminally responsible for a “colossal screw-up, a blunder of epic proportions” that ended in the fatal shooting of a Black motorist.
Assistant Attorney General Erin Eldridge said defendant Kim Potter, a former Brooklyn Center police officer, improperly disregarded a series of risks when she drew her service weapon, shot and killed Daunte Wright this year.
Potter, who is white, has said she accidentally pulled a Glock when she was trying to deploy a Taser to subdue Wright, who was fleeing from arrest on a misdemeanor weapons warrant.
But Eldridge insisted that Potter shouldn’t have even used a Taser on Wright, who was mortally wounded and drove a short distance before slamming into another car seconds later.
“It goes to show that she made a series of bad choices that led to her shooting and killing Daunte Wright. It goes to her disregard of all the risks,” Eldridge told a Minneapolis jury.
“Members of the jury, this was no little ‘oopsies.’ This was not putting the wrong date on a check. This was not entering the wrong password somewhere. This was a colossal screw-up, a blunder of epic proportions. It was precisely the thing she had been warned about for years and she was trained to prevent it. It was irreversible and it was fatal.”
