Article 5GHNA Minnesota officer who killed Daunte Wright resigns along with police chief

Minnesota officer who killed Daunte Wright resigns along with police chief

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Richard Luscombe, Joanna Walters and agencies
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Police chief had said that officer Kim Potter meant to fire her Taser but fired her service weapon by mistake, killing the 20-year-old

Kim Potter, the white Minnesota police officer who fatally shot the Black resident Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, and her chief of police, Tim Gannon, resigned on Tuesday.

Their resignations come after two nights of protests in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center over Sunday's killing of Wright, who was unarmed when he was pulled over for a traffic violation on Sunday.

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