Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is taking over the prosecution of the ex-cop charged with killing Daunte Wright in a traffic stop last month, his office announced Friday.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is taking over the prosecution of the ex-cop charged with killing Daunte Wright in a traffic stop last month, his office announced Friday. Ellison’s team is already reviewing the evidence and charges against Kim Potter, who faces one count of second-degree manslaughter in the Black man’s shooting. The Washington County attorney, who was overseeing the case until now, was under pressure to charge the white officer with murder. Ellison did not immediately say whether his office would pursue higher charges against her. It was Ellison’s office that prosecuted and won a murder conviction against Derek Chauvin, the fired Minneapolis officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes last spring. The April 11 shooting happened in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center as Chauvin’s trial was underway.
