Update: Ex police officer, Kim Potter arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter in Daunte Wright’s death

The former Brooklyn Center police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop has been arrested in connection with his death. 

Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, was taken into custody about 11:30 a.m. at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in St. Paul, officials said on Wednesday, April 14.

She was charged with second-degree manslaughter in connection with Wright’s death and is being held without bail, Washington County Attorney Pete Orput announced.

Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, died of a gunshot wound to the chest, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office, which classified the manner of death as a homicide.

He was shot and killed during a traffic stop just before 2 p.m. on  Sunday in Brooklyn Center, after officer Potter said she mistook her taser for a gun and fired at him. He died about 10 miles from where George Floyd, another black man was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last year.