Brooklyn Center Police Officer Resigns
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, thank you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime. |
| 0:04.0 | A charging decision could be imminent in the Dante Wright police killing. |
| 0:08.4 | The prosecutor in Washington County, Minnesota, tells CNN he hopes to reach a decision |
| 0:14.0 | by tomorrow. The big question was the shooting a mistake. Well, that influenced the charge or charges |
| 0:21.5 | might it even influence if there is a charge. It shouldn't. Does time here matter? Yes, why? |
| 0:31.2 | Because there is anger in the streets of a state that has communities in pain. And the cries of |
| 0:37.4 | that pain finds its echo all over this country. The officer who shot and killed Dante Wright, |
| 0:44.9 | Kimberly Potter, resigned today, along with Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Ganon, who said yesterday, |
| 0:51.3 | he believed the deadly shooting of Wright was an accident. Was that judgment? Why he resigned. |
| 0:59.6 | In her resignation letter, Potter said she thought it was in the best interest of the community, |
| 1:04.4 | her department, and her fellow officers if she left immediately. Does resigning affect |
| 1:11.0 | her potential of being charged? No. Might she have added in that letter more about how a 20 plus |
| 1:18.6 | year veteran could make a mistake like that. Protesters are back on the streets tonight. There's |
| 1:24.6 | another curfew. It goes into effect in Brooklyn Center and the Twin Cities in less than two hours. |
| 1:29.5 | We have people all over the situation and we will be watching. The need for answers is why they're |
| 1:36.4 | there. But really, it is the need for change that makes for less situation to demand answers. |
| 1:45.6 | That is the deep, painful need. And it grows worse with every case, whether you like it or not. |
| 1:54.0 | Every jump to blame non-compliance and some misguided sense of how the civilian must be perfect. |
| 1:59.9 | But an officer like Mitchell is granted a measure of forgiveness for a response. Maybe it was a |
| 2:05.5 | mistake. Maybe it wasn't accident. Aren't very the ones trained to do the job for handling non-compliance, |
| 2:12.6 | to not make mistakes? Are you one of those people? Think about that. Do you have a measure of |
| 2:20.2 | forgiveness, of leniency, for Kim Potter, that you do not have for Dante Wright or George Floyd, |
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