Potter’s trial began Tuesday, with jury selection taking just over three days.
A mostly-white jury will determine the fate of Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot unarmed Black man Daunte Wright in April. Jury selection, which began Tuesday, concluded Friday with nine white jurors, one Black juror and two Asian jurors. Both alternates are also white. Most of the jury had already been picked Thursday, with its members expressing a variety of opinions on policing in a pre-selection questionnaire. Legal experts said trial observers should focus less on the racial makeup of the jury and more on their feelings about police. “It might be true in general that Black people are more distrustful of police than white people, but it isn’t true as to every individual,” said Ted Sampsell-Jones, a professor at St.
