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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she killed Daunte Wright will be sentenced in February after a jury convicted her Thursday on two counts of manslaughter.

The most serious charge against Kim Potter — first-degree manslaughter — carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.

Celebrations Over Kim Potter Convictions: “We Gon’ Let That Bitch Rot in Hell”

The jury found former police officer Kim Potter guilty of first-degree manslaughter and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright.

Here are some reactions from the left and Wright’s family.

Dec 23 (Reuters) – The jury reached a verdict on Thursday in the manslaughter trial of Kimberly Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who mistook her handgun for her Taser and fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop.

The jury of six men and six women have reached a consensus on whether to convict or acquit Potter and the decision will be read in court between 1:30 and 2:00 p.m. CST (1930 and 2000 GMT), according to a notice from the court.

BREAKING: #KimPotter has been found guilty of first-degree manslaughter and second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of #DaunteWright. | https://t.co/MmLkdS1ovW pic.twitter.com/bsT3VgTE0F

— WCCO – CBS Minnesota (@WCCO) December 23, 2021

Watch live – Verdict now scheduled between 2:30 PM & 3:00 PM

When Martin Luther King Jr., envisioned an America of equality in human dignity, he certainly didn’t anticipate racial lines being drawn around one of our country’s most sacred holidays. Sadly, that’s where we find ourselves today.

Corporate America is largely showing up in support for the Black Lives Matter organization, which is once again promoting its annual “#BlackXmas” campaign calling on shoppers to boycott “white capitalist” companies. That’s more than just bad business. At this moment, it’s actively underwriting the “War on Christmas.”

A former Minnesota police officer has tearfully recounted the “chaotic” moment she shot and killed a black motorist in April.

Kim Potter, 49, claims she mistakenly drew her gun instead of her Taser and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright.

She now faces two manslaughter charges for his death. Her defence team claims he was resisting arrest.

I feel very sorry for this woman. She will not get off despite this being a horrid accident.

African-American politicians benefited from segregation

Earlier this year, the Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot declared racism to be a public health crisis. Her announcement followed a comprehensive report by the Chicago Department of Public Health, which contained a litany of grim statistics: Black children born in Chicago are three times more likely to die in the first year of life than other infants in the city; half of Chicago’s HIV-positive residents are black, in spite of African Americans making up just 30% of the population; African American Chicagoans are nine times more likely to be murdered and can expect to live nine years less than average; in Englewood on the South Side, where 95% of residents are Black, life expectancy is just 60-years-old, lower than in Afghanistan.

For former Officer Kim Potter, life boils down to a trial.

As things stand, she’s accused of murdering Daunte Wright when she pulled her firearm instead of her taser. I don’t even want to imagine what a murder trial is like if you’re the one accused of it.

However, most of us have seen what happened. The bodycam footage was out there and Potter did what she’s accused of doing–killing Wright. What’s in question is pretty much everything else.

A Taser expert testifying for the prosecution in Kim Potter’s trial has told jurors in the that, ‘mistakes happen’ in policing and described the former cop as ‘peaceful and law-abiding.’

Brooklyn Center Police Department Sgt Mike Peterson was giving testimony at the start of day six in the high-profile trial as defense attorney Paul Engh stepped up to cross examine the witness who began his testimony yesterday.

On Tuesday jurors in Minneapolis’s Hennepin County District Court heard about BCPD police department’s taser training at such length under direct examination by Assistant Attorney General Matthew Frank, that Judge Regina Chu suggested that flagging jurors stand and stretch their legs.

Selectively reporting or downright ignoring crime based upon race is a dangerous gambit in the hands of a partisan media with a political ax to grind.  The Associated Press Stylebook cautions journalists against identifying race in crime reporting once a suspect is found or apprehended; however, there is an escape clause that suggests that race can be injected into a story if a reporter believes it plays a part in a particular demonstration or criminal act.  That opens the door to gaslighting and editorializing upon the factual circumstances of an event for political purposes…

Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists told students that they live in a “misogynistic, masculine society” that claims “women should stay at home” to cook and clean and that as black women, they are “overlooked a lot” and encounter people who want to harm them because of who they are, according to a video obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

A homeless black man from Florida who was arrested last week in the stabbing death of a 14-year-old boy got into a fight with a sheriff’s deputy as he was being booked into jail and made several statements invoking race, including calling the officer a ‘white devil.’

Semmie Williams, 39, was arrested on December 1 in Miami on first-degree murder charges for the November 15 slaying of Ryan Rogers, 14, whose body was found alongside an Interstate 95 overpass.

The Minnesota police officer shot Daunte Wright dead after yelling three ‘taser’ warnings

For the fourth time in the last four years, Minnesota is trying a police officer for excessive use of force in a highly-publicized case watched by people around the world. In three of the four cases, an officer killed a black man during an alleged misdemeanor stop in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Kim Potter trial: Experts sound off on mistaking handgun for Taser

“Every Taser course I know of emphasizes making sure you don’t inadvertently pull one when you need the other,” said David Katz, a former senior special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the founder and CEO of Global Security Group. “That is why most departments use the Taser in a cross-draw position, which is separate from the strong-side holster for the regular firearm.”

Dec 8 (Reuters) – A white Minnesota police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Black motorist in April, triggering protests against police brutality, will go on trial on Wednesday as opening statements to the jury get underway.

Kimberly Potter, a former police officer in a city north of Minneapolis, has said she mistakenly used her handgun instead of her Taser when firing at Daunte Wright, 20, as he attempted to flee in his car following a traffic stop.

The Black Lives Matter protester charged with intimidating the judge presiding over the case for Kim Potter likely won’t be extradited back to Minnesota until after the ex-police officer’s trial over the shooting of Daunte Wright concludes.

Cortez Rice, 32, of Minneapolis, is charged with felony harassment, aggravated violations and tamper with juror, retaliate against judicial officer in connection to a Nov. 6 protest at an apartment building he and other demonstrators believed to be where Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu lives.

The BLM black supremacist push for historical revisionism now extends to all sorts of commutations that’s meant to turn history inside out and prop up assorted arguments and conspiracy theories, like over the murder of Malcolm X, and even right down to exonerating the original Hitler-loving founder of black supremacism in America for defrauding black people.

He was BLM before BLM was cool!