Ex-police officer charged over fatal shooting of black man in Minnesota

A demonstrator is hit with marking rounds and tear gas during a standoff with police outside the Brooklyn Centre Police Department (AP)

A white former police officer faces her first court appearance over the fatal shooting of a black motorist in a suburb of Minneapolis, igniting four straight days of bitter conflict between protesters and officers.

Kim Potter, 48, who quit her job on the Brooklyn Centre force two days after Daunte Wright’s death, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in what her chief said appeared to be a case of confusing her Taser weapon with her handgun.