contempt. congress grilling the head of instagram, after internal documents show the social media platform can harm the mental health of young women, especially teenage girls. and testimony as a manslaughter trial begins in minnesota for a former police officer who shot and killed dahntay wright during a traffic spot, claiming she accidently mistook her gun for her taser. i want to bring in now former gop congressman charlie dent and cnn s senior analyst good evening to both of you. elly, now mark meadows is sooning the committee. is he afraid of trump or is this a stalling tactic? it s a distraction tactic, this lawsuit has next to no chance of succeeding. he s just taking a firecracker, lighting it, tossing it into the january 6 room and saying deal with this.
she was unresponsive, and he looked dead. reporter: bryant testified a neighbor then drove her to the scene about ten miles outside minneapolis. she identified her son in the middle of a street, by his sneakers. it was the worst day of my life. reporter: defense attorneys arguing there was a warrant for wright s arrest, and he resisted. he had to be arrested on the warrant. reporter: both sides focusing on potter pulling her gun instead of the taser. taser, taser, taser. a key issue in the case for you is what was her conscious thought as to whether or not she had a taser in her arm or whether or not she had a gun. that s why she said taser, taser, taser. she didn t say, gun, gun, gun. we trust them to know wrong from right, and left from right. this case is about an officer
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who knew not to get it dead wrong, but she failed. reporter: wright was initially pulled over in april upon an expired tag, and an air freshener. potter then tells wright he has an outstanding warrant, and another officer attempts to arrest him. body camera shows the shooting. taser, taser, taser. holy [ bleep ], i just shot him. reporter: the prosecutor using potter s own words against her. adrian, thank you so much now. i want to bring in now the attorney for daunte wright s family. i appreciate you joining us this evening. good evening, don. thank you so much. we just heard some of daunte
what they are trying to do, the charges that are filed and how they presented the evidence so far and the arguments that they have made in opening statements, everything fits. they have multiple lanes in which they can obtain a conviction here, as long as they can explain those jury instructions to the jury, they re doing a very good job so far. because those charges that are against potter right now, like i said, there are multiple ways in which the jury can find the path for a conviction. how is the family taking the defense arguing that potter is just a human being who made a mistake? i mean, they re blaming wright for his death by saying that he should have just surrendered. don, first of all, this was not a mistake. she intentionally she knew that she was grabbing her gun. i watched that video today, and i washed it very closely. and before she yelled taser, taser, taser, she had been gun