A woman allegedly held at gunpoint by Daunte Wright released the victim impact statement she will never get to read in court last week.
The woman, who went unnamed, released her victim impact statement to Fox News. The statement is what she would have read in court had Wright stood trial for allegedly holding her at gunpoint and demanding the $820 she had saved for rent. Wright died on April 11 after former Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter shot him while shouting “taser, taser, taser!”
“I had never stared into somebody’s eyes while begging to keep my life, while also having a gun pointed at my head,” the alleged victim told Fox News. “I have never gasped for air as much as I did when I had his hands wrapped around my neck.”
One evening in December 2019, a high school acquaintance dropped Wright off at the alleged victim’s house where they drank and smoked marijuana. The next morning, Wright held her at gunpoint demanding she hand over her rent money.
“I believe that both of these men deserve time in prison, probation after prison for this crime to be on their permanent records, mandatory psychiatric evaluations, anger management classes, chemical dependency classes and treatment and domestic violence classes,” she said, referring to the high school acquaintance and Wright. “The acts of crime they committed towards me. I feel they are a danger to society and will continue to do the same things to other people if they’re not punished for their crimes.”
“I would never wish anything bad upon another person or other people in my life, but I do wish that both of these men get the help they need as soon as possible,” she continued. “I never want to see or hear either of these men ever again. I also do not want to have to worry about whether or not they will send anybody after me or my family, in spite of them getting convicted for what they did.”
Potter is facing charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter after she shot and killed Wright during a traffic stop in April. Potter and several other police officers pulled Wright over for expired vehicle registration tags. While checking his ID, officers found out that Wright had a warrant out for his arrest in connection with the alleged robbery. The officers confronted Wright and attempted to detain him. As The Daily Wire reported:
Video of the traffic stop shows Wright struggling with officers as they attempt to cuff him. Wright slips an officer’s grip and gets back into his car. Potter then shoots Wright once after yelling, “taser!” Former Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon, who along with Potter resigned after the incident, said that the shooting was accidental and that Potter believed she held her taser when she shot Wright.