The former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer convicted in the death of Daunte Wright is due back in court Friday to be sentenced
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Prosecutors are seeking more than seven years in prison for Kimberly Potter, who said she mistakenly drew her gun instead of her Taser when she fatally shot Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop in April 2021. She was convicted in December of first- and second-degree manslaughter.Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison asked Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu to impose the presumptive sentence of 86 months, or seven years and two months, in a sentencing memo filed Tuesday.
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