fire her taser. she chose to engage and use force. she chose to escalate. she knew she had both weapons on her duty belt. she knew how to get it right. she failed to get it right. she failed daunte wright. potter age 49 facing man slaughter in the same courtroom where a jury convicted former officer derek chauvin. no threat by daunte wright? he took off from his car even after he was shot, no threat? i would preferred had daunte
because of the defendant s actions, not daunte wright s. she knew she had a loaded gun on her duty belt, a gun that she carried every single day on the job. she carried it on the right side every day, for 26 years. and that s the weapon she used. that s the weapon she drew. that s the weapon she pointed. and that s the weapon she fired. members of the jury, that s culpable negligence and that s reckless handling of a firearm, resulting in death. this case is about the defendant s rash and reckless conduct. it s not about her being a nice person or a good person. even nice people have to obey the law. it s not about the smell of marijuana. it s not about a gross
yes. and you also had other items on that duty belt as well, correct? yes. and as part of the training that you went through every year they covered topics of all kinds of uses of force, right? yes. including the things on your duty belt and maybe other options that the department could use additionally, true? only the things i was assigned on my duty belt. okay. but in any case that use of force training was a pretty key component of being an officer, right? yes. you were trained about when you could use force, how much force to use and what would be appropriate force, fair? fair. and not only were you trained on that, but you had a lot of policy that dictated what you could and could not do in a particular situation, right?
side pictures of you on april 11th, correct? yes. and your taser is pictured on left side of your duty belt, correct? yes. and that s the way you had been care telling for years and years, correct? yes. and your firearm you carried on the right side of your duty belt, right? yes. and you agree that the standard procedure for reaction side, left hand draw for your toyser in this case would be to draw that weapon with your left hand, correct? yes. all right. you can take that down. you were asked some questions on direct about spark testing, the function testing of the taser. the policy says that you should do that before the beginning of every shift, right? yes. and you didn t do it the last two shifts that you worked,
resigned, right? yes. now you indicated that tasers came later, but you were first trade on using a taser in 2002, correct? if that s what the documents say, i m not sure when they came out. and if the documents say you were trained in 2002, you would have been trained every year thereafter, right? yes. and you started carrying a taser on your duty belt regularly as of 2005, right? yes. but at a minimum in addition to all the other training you, you would have had taser training year after year for at least last 19 years, right? yes. and the taser training that s required, you saw the documents that were in court, also requires not only review