‘One of the Worst Scums Walking This Earth’: Ex-Cop Kim Potter, Convicted for Killing of Daunte Wright, Is Now Leading Use-of-Force Lectures At Conferences for Profit, Infuriating Family

A former Minnesota police officer, convicted in 2022 of fatally shooting a Black driver after mistakenly grabbing her gun instead of her Taser during a traffic stop, has been released from prison and now works as a speaker at law enforcement conferences.  The manslaughter case involving Kim Potter has ignited a debate over how officers convicted of misconduct should be held accountable. Potter’s reemergence comes more than three years after she shot Daunte Wright in the chest at close range after shouting “Taser! Taser! Taser!” just before firing her service pistol instead. The 20-year-old victim was pronounced dead minutes later. Kim Potter, left and Daunte Wright, right, (Photos: Hennepin County Sheriff, Daunte Wright family) The following year, Potter was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two years. She served 16 months for the crime and has since reinserted herself into the ongoing debate over rampant police killings of innocent Black men. In Wright’s case, he was unarmed, though he was being sought on an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court related to a charge of misdemeanor possession of a firearm without a permit. Additionally, Wright had a history of previous charges, including a gross misdemeanor for fleeing police...