A former police officer who fired shots that killed a fleeing man in Minnesota in 2021 was sentenced on Feb. 18 to two years in jail. Kim Potter, who worked for the Brooklyn Center Police Department, faced up to 8 1/2 years in prison, but Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu said the lesser sentence was warranted because Potter was “in the line of duty and doing her job in attempting to lawfully arrest Daunte Wright” when Potter fired the shots. Potter has said she believed she was drawing her Taser when she unholstered her firearm and pulled the trigger as Wright slipped from another officer’s grasp, entered his vehicle, and started driving away. Potter’s attorneys pushed for no jail time while prosecutors asked the judge for the presumptive sentence, which would have been just over seven years. “His life mattered, and that life was taken,” prosecutor Matt Frank said before the sentencing. …