- Black Lives Matter protesters gathered outside the home of Judge Regina Chu, who yesterday sentenced killer cop Kim Potter fourteen months in prison
- Potter, 49, was convicted of first and second-degree manslaughter for killing Daunte Wright, 20, when she shot him with her gun instead of her taser in April
- Wright’s mother, Katie Wright, joined about 100 protesters in chanting the slain black man’s name and ‘No Justice, No Peace’
- Chu downgraded Potter’s prison sentence from the state-recommended 7 years to just 14 months, saying the cop was ‘trying to do the right thing’
- ‘I can guarantee that she can’t do anything behind bars,’ said one speaker. ‘But once she’s out… she’s probably going to get a book deal’
BLM protesters took to the streets outside a building said to be home to a judge who sentenced a white cop who killed a black man to just 14 months in prison.
The crowd of around 100 people protested outside what they believe to be Judge Regina Chu’s Minneapolis condo building on Friday night.
That protest began hours after Chu sentenced Kim Potter to 14 months behind bars for shooting and killing black suspect Daunte Wright in April 2021.
Potter was convicted of first-degree manslaughter after claiming she’d meant to reach for her taser, only to pull her gun on Wright and fatally-shoot him instead.
She had been expected to receive around seven years behind bars, with state laws permitting a maximum sentence of 15 years.
Protesters say that the Brooklyn Center cop, 49, who killed 20-year-old Wright after he tried to flee when she and another officer pulled him over for expired plates on April 11, got off easy – Minnesota’s sentencing guidelines recommend 86 months of jail time for first and second degree manslaughter, the charges of which Potter was found guilty.
After a 4.30pm news conference outside the Hennepin County Government Center, protesters moved to what they said was Chu’s home the Loring Park neighborhood near downtown Minneapolis. It is unclear whether they had the correct address.