Daunte Wright shooting: Officer Kim Potter to be charged over killing

Kim Potter quit the police force on Tuesday

A white police officer who shot dead a black motorist in Minnesota is to be charged with second-degree manslaughter, prosecutors have told US media.

Officer Kim Potter has said she shot Daunte Wright accidentally, having mistakenly drawn her gun instead of her Taser.

Both she and Police Chief Tim Gannon have quit the Brooklyn Center force.

The killing has sparked three nights of clashes between police and protesters.

The death happened in a suburb of Minneapolis, a city already on edge amid the trial of a white ex-police officer accused of murdering African American George Floyd.

On Tuesday night, bottles and other projectiles were thrown at the Brooklyn Center police headquarters and officers responded by firing tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets.

Earlier on Tuesday the families of Mr Wright and Mr Floyd came together to demand an end to the killing of unarmed black Americans by police.

"The world is traumatised watching another African-American man being slain," Floyd's brother Philonise Floyd said.

On Monday Police Chief Gannon said the shooting of Mr Wright - who had a one-year-old son - appeared to be an "accidental discharge" after Mrs Potter, who had 26 years experience as a police officer, mistook her service pistol for a stun gun.

But the families have rejected the explanation that Mr Wright's death was an accident.

Mr Wright's aunt Naisha said: "I watched that video like everybody else watched that video. That woman held that gun in front of her a long damn time."

Daunte Wright was shot after being stopped by police for a traffic violation

Mrs Potter's bodycam footage shows her shouting "Taser" before firing her gun.

Mr Wright's mother Katie told reporters her son had called her after he was pulled over by police, and that she had offered to give insurance details to police over the phone.

She said she heard police order him to get out of the vehicle. There was a scuffling sound and an officer told him to hang up the phone.

When she was eventually able to call back, his girlfriend answered and told her he had been shot.

"She pointed the phone toward the driver's seat and my son was laying there, unresponsive," she said in tears.

"That was the last time that I've seen my son."