Daunte Wright's family attorney Ben Crump said they do not believe Daunte got the consideration he deserved after former police officer Kim Potter was sentenced to two years in prison for his 2021 death.
“We continue to fight for equal justice under the law, it can’t just be a concept, it has to be real,” Crump told reporters. “They believe today was their son did not get the consideration that he deserved in this matter.”
Potter, a former Minnesota police officer, was convicted in December of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter for killing Wright during an April 11, 2021 traffic stop in which she mistakenly drew a gun instead of her Taser.
The Wright family, he said, was disappointed with the sentence.
“They feel very disappointed because they believe that there was no reason to have such consideration for the killer of their child,” Crump said. He compared Potter’s case to the case of a Minnesota police officer Mohamed Noor, who was sentenced to four years and nine months for fatally shooting a woman when responding to a 911 call in 2017.
“Many in the Twin Cities believed that Mohamed Noor, a Black police officer, who was convicted of a lesser charge of manslaughter to receive a much greater sentence than this White woman who killed their son Daunte Wright,” Crump explained.
“What we see today that is the legal system in America in Black and White,” Crump added.
Potter will be required to serve two-thirds of her sentence in prison, or 16 months, according to state law. With good behavior, she will be eligible for supervised release for the remaining third.
CNN's Dakin Andone and Brad Parks contributed reporting to this post.
SnooWoofers5703 on February 18th, 2022 at 21:38 UTC »
Only 2 years... she will be out in half that tome...
Ill-Agent on February 18th, 2022 at 18:00 UTC »
Meanwhile in Minnesota...
Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor drew a reduced sentence of 57 months in prison - the maximum possible for manslaughter - after his murder conviction in the 2017 shooting death of an Australian woman was overturned last month.
Last month the Minnesota Supreme Court vacated Noor's third-degree murder conviction and ordered that he be resentenced on a lesser charge of second-degree manslaughter in the death of Justine Ruszczyk, 40, who called police on the night of July 15, 2017, after hearing a woman scream near her home.
LastExitToSalvation on February 18th, 2022 at 17:02 UTC »
MN standards are that she'll be released after 16 months (assuming good behavior) and she gets credit for 58 days already incarcerated. So, she's going to jail for 1 year and 2 months.