{"id":1255120,"date":"2023-04-24T05:10:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T09:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/minnesota-officer-who-fatally-shot-daunte-wright-freed\/1255120\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T05:10:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T09:10:18","slug":"minnesota-officer-who-fatally-shot-daunte-wright-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/minnesota-officer-who-fatally-shot-daunte-wright-freed\/1255120\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright freed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Kim Potter, the Minnesota police officer who mistook her gun for a Taser and killed Daunte Wright in 2021, was released from prison early Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Department of Corrections said Potter was set free around 4 a.m. \u201cout of an abundance of caution.\u201d The department confirmed Friday she would be released Monday but declined to say what time out of security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Potter, a white officer for a suburban Minneapolis department, fatally shot Wright, 20, who was Black, during a traffic stop in April 2021. The shooting happened during the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer who killed George Floyd, and Wright\u2019s death set off several days of protests.<\/p>\n<p>From:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/minnesota-officer-fatally-shot-daunte-123452404.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Minnesota officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright freed\" rel=\"noopener\">AOL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Kim Potter, the Minnesota police officer who mistook her gun for a Taser and killed Daunte Wright in 2021, was released from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-5gvS","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}