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At the time of the shooting, Kimberly Ann Potter, a white woman from Champlin, Minnesota, was a 48-year-old police officer in the Brooklyn Center Police Department, and a mother of two sons. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] She had worked for the department since 1995, shortly after finishing at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota a year prior in 1994.
BROOKLYN CENTER, MN - APRIL 11: People treat a man who was shot in the neck with a projectile by police on April 11, 2021 in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.
Killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center on April 11, 2021; Killing of Winston Boogie Smith in Minneapolis on June 3, 2021; Killing of Leneal Frazier in Minneapolis on July 6, 2021; Killing of Amir Locke in Minneapolis on February 2, 2022; Killing of Ricky Cobb II in Minneapolis on July 31, 2023
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) was the lead government agency that investigated the incident. [5] At a press conference on the evening of the shooting, BCA superintendent Drew Evans who viewed a video of the incident, described Mitchell's death as the result of an ambush-style attack.
“We recognize that this couldn’t have happened during a worse time,” the mayor said.
Three Minnesota State Patrol troopers are on leave after one of them fatally shot a man during a traffic stop early Monday in Minneapolis, and the state is investigating the shooting, authorities say.
Daunte Wright was an unarmed, 20-year-old biracial [43] Black man, [44] who was fatally shot by Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter during an altercation at a traffic stop on April 11, 2021, on 63 Avenue North in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. [23] [24] [3] Police said Potter had meant to use her Taser but accidentally used a handgun. [26]
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