{"id":418120,"date":"2021-04-13T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=418120"},"modified":"2021-04-13T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:59:10","slug":"kim-potter-police-officer-who-shot-daunte-wright-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kim-potter-police-officer-who-shot-daunte-wright-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Potter, Police Officer Who Shot Daunte Wright, Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkim-potter-police-officer-who-shot-daunte-wright-resigns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=418120&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1694.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Kim Potter, 48, the Minnesota police officer who was identified as the person who fatally shot a 20-year-man after he tried to resist arrest, resigned from her job Tuesday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, just north of Minneapolis, submitted her resignation letter to city officials, <\/span><span>the Star Tribune<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/officer-who-shot-daunte-wright-resigns-from-brooklyn-center-police-department\/600045468\/\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI have loved every minute of being a police officer and serving this community to the best of my ability, but I believe it is in the best interest of the community, the department, and my fellow officers if I resign immediately,\u201d wrote Potter.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Potter\u2019s resignation comes only days after she fatally shot Daunte Wright, 20, during a traffic stop on Sunday. Police officials said Monday that they believed the officer meant to fire her taser when she shot Daunte with her gun; Body camera footage released by the police department shows Potter repeatedly yelling \u201ctaser!\u201d before shooting him.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHoly shit, I just shot him,\u201d she was recorded as saying after firing her gun.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon, who believes the shooting was unintended, said officers are trained to yell \u201ctaser\u201d before firing. \u201cAs I watch the video and listen to the officer\u2019s commands, it is my belief that the officer had the intention to deploy their Taser, but instead shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet,\u201d he said, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/explainer-officer-gun-taser-77031088\"><span>reports<\/span><\/a><span> ABC News.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously reported, unrest broke out in the area beginning on Sunday:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13.653608247423\">\n<p><em>Following the incident on Sunday afternoon, hundreds of rioters attacked police cars and a police station while looters ravaged nearby businesses. The National Guard was later&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/national-guard-deployed-in-minneapolis-after-fatal-police-shooting\" rel=\"noopener\">deployed<\/a>&nbsp;to help stop the rioting in the city that was devastated by violent riots last year that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/twin-cities-rebuilding-begins-with-donations-pressure-on-government\/571075592\/\">cost<\/a>&nbsp;well into the hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The suspect\u2019s mother said that she was on the phone with him when the incident happened and that she heard police tell her son, \u201cDaunte, don\u2019t run.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The unrest picked up again on Tuesday night, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/minneapolis-erupts-in-violence-for-second-night-reporters-push-back-after-police-chief-labels-unrest-a-riot\">multiple agencies stepped in<\/a> to try and keep calm and order in the area, including the Minnesota National Guard, the Minnesota state police and local police departments.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Potter, 48, the Minnesota police officer who was identified as the person who fatally shot a 20-year-man after he tried to resist arrest, resigned from her job Tuesday.\u00a0Potter, a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312112,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1694.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Kim Potter, Police Officer Who Shot Daunte Wright, Resigns","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1694.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Kim Potter, Police Officer Who Shot Daunte Wright, Resigns","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}