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A white Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb has resigned, and so has the city’s police chief. Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott says he hopes the moves will help the community heal after two nights of protests and unrest. However, Elliott also says he didn’t ask for nor accept Officer Kim Potter’s resignation. It wasn’t immediately clear what impact that would have. Daunte Wright was shot in Brooklyn Center on Sunday, as the Minneapolis area was already on edge amid the trial of a police officer in George Floyd’s death. The police chief has said he believed Potter mistakenly grabbed her gun when she was going for her Taser.
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Original story
A white Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb and the city’s chief of police resigned today (Tue).
Officer Kim Potter and Police Chief Tim Gannon both resigned two days after the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center.
Potter was a 26-year veteran. She had been on administrative leave following Sunday’s shooting.
Gannon has said he believed Potter mistakenly grabbed her gun when she was going for her Taser.
She can be heard on her body camera video shouting “Taser! Taser!”
Wright’s death has sparked two days of clashes between police and protesters.
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