MINNEAPOLIS—Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Friday that his office will lead the prosecution of a former suburban police officer who is charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright. Former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter, who fatally shot Wright, a 20-year-old motorist, on April 11. The city’s police chief, who has since stepped down, had said he believed Potter meant to use her Taser instead of her handgun. Body-worn camera videos show Potter, a 26-year veteran of the force, shouting “Taser!” while pointing her handgun at Wright, who was attempting to get back behind the steering wheel. She then shot Wright in the chest. Ellison said he took the case at the request of Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman, after another prosecutor—Washington County Attorney Pete Orput—gave the case back to Freeman’s office. Orput initially had the case under an agreement in which metro prosecutors share one another’s …
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