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Potter, a 26-year police veteran with the Brooklyn Center Police Department, claimed she mistakenly drew her handgun instead of her Taser in the shooting that sparked national uproar and protests.

The fatal shooting triggered a new wave of outrage over police brutality and institutional racism as Wright's death came just a year after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

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In the 2021 shooting, police pulled Wright over because of expired license plate tags and an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror, officials have said. Police said they discovered an outstanding warrant and tried to arrest him and that Wright tried to flee before he was shot.

She has been in jail since Dec. 23, 2021 and has served 16 months at the Shakopee Minnesota Correctional Facility. After her release, she’ll serve another eight months on supervised release.

Potter was ordered to serve two-thirds of her sentence in custody and one-third on supervised release, with credit for 58 days already served.

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"We were trying to keep him from driving away. It just, it just went chaotic. ... And then, I remember yelling, ‘Taser. Taser. Taser.’ And nothing happened. And then, he told me, I shot him,” she said.

Peel Regional Police has acknowledged from the onset of our project that Body-Worn Cameras should not be solely relied upon as a primary tool to improve trust, transparency and relationships within our community. The objective of our Body-Worn Camera project is to improve overall community safety and well-being, with one of the many focuses being on transparency, accountability and trust through the demonstration of our members' professionalism. As we continue to deploy the technology, we have been and continue to conduct community engagement sessions with our external stakeholders, councils, and community members to allow for two-way communication and input/feedback into our project. The input we have received thus far, and continue to receive, has helped us shape our project as a whole.

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Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu said at the time that Potter deserved less because she was trying to use her Taser and not her gun.

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Wright was gunned down just about 10 miles north of the courthouse where former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted in Floyd's death.

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The 50-year-old was sentenced to two years in jail in February 2022, convicted of first and second-degree manslaughter in the April 11, 2021 slaying of Wright, 20, in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center.

Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright in 2021, will be freed from prison Monday, the state department of corrections said.

"We will quickly adjust and alter our release procedures if we obtain information that indicates there is a credible threat to Kim Potter’s safety or the safety of others," the department said.

Potter’s sentence was significantly less than the 86 months prosecutors had pushed for — prompting Wright's mother, Katie Wright, to say after the sentencing, “the justice system murdered him all over again.”