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US city to pay $3.2m in police killing of Daunte Wright

Daunte Wright was shot once in the chest in April 2021 by Brooklyn Center officer Kim Potter, who said she mistook her gun for her Taser [File: Nicole Neri/AP]

A suburb in the US city of Minneapolis, Minnesota has agreed to pay $3.2m to the family of Daunte Wright, a Black man who was fatally shot by a police officer who said she confused her gun for her taser.

Lawyers said in a statement late on Tuesday that the settlement of the wrongful death lawsuit that Wright’s family filed against Brooklyn Center will not be finalised until an agreement has been reached regarding more training for the city’s police officers.

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