Killing of Daunte Wright (2021)

This documentary-style narrative reconstructs the fatal April 11, 2021 shooting of twenty-year-old Daunte Wright during a routine traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Through calm, detailed storytelling, it follows the encounter from its ordinary beginning—expired tags, a brief conversation, standard procedures—to the sudden escalation at the driver’s door where Officer Kim Potter drew her handgun instead of her Taser and fired a single deadly shot. The story widens beyond the moment of the shooting, portraying Wright as a young father and son, Potter as a veteran officer with decades of service, and investigators as they piece together every second of the event through footage, evidence, and expert analysis. Their findings set the stage for a high-stakes manslaughter trial that placed questions of training, negligence, race, accountability, and police reform at the center of national attention. By following the decision to charge Potter, the court proceedings, the jury’s verdict, and the community’s response, the narrative reveals how one traffic stop grew into a defining case—an event that pushed forward debates about policing and sparked new efforts to prevent everyday encounters from becoming deadly.