The prosecutor whose office filed charges against Minnesota police who shot and killed Daunte Wright said he is willing to do “everything he can to get a conviction.”
Washington County Attorney Pete Orput made the comments in an interview with the Daily Mail after protesters marched Saturday near his home in Stillwater, Minnesota, demanding police Kim Potter face charges of homicide to kill Wright, 20, during a traffic stop.
“I would just ask to have confidence in me as a prosecutor. I don’t give anything away, ”Orput said in the interview, which was a video recorded by the news newspaper.
“I’m not trying to say, it’s a police officer, I’ll give him a break. I am saying that I will present the tests like the ones I had in the 350 jury trials that I have done in my career and that I will ask the jury to do the right things “, he added.
“And I think the right thing to do is to convict her of second-degree murder,” Orput said.
Potter was arrested and charged with 2nd-degree homicide for shooting Wright on April 11 at the Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb.
Potter shouted “Taser! Taser! Taser! ”Before firing him once in the torso with a live ammunition wheel. Police have said the veteran police intended to fire her from Taser and accidentally pulled out her gun.
In the interview, Orput said he was convinced the charges are acceptable for the shooting.
“Everyone has the right to due process. Adolf Hitler is entitled to due process. Everyone is. And I welcome it. I don’t see it as a challenge, “he said.
“Because I think the woman who was prosecuted committed second-degree murder. If I thought I had committed more, I would take the charges, ”added Orput.
“But I can only present the charges that support the evidence. And if that doesn’t calm the audience, I’m sorry they won’t. “