to reach a decision. and laura, if they re not, that s a decision too. it just means that a jury wasn t able to reach a verdict because this was a really close and a really difficult case. i wonder if the jury will agree with you that though those weren t crocodile tears. the benefit of the doubt that is extended to police officers and the idea of the reason why they re able to have the weapons and the ability to arrest and stop is because there is an elevated expectation that they can rise to the occasion and grapple with the stress, grapple with the split second decisions and make the right call. i m curious to see how this jury comes down on this very important notion. and again, at the end of the day, either way daunte wright will not be home for christmas. it s a very difficult case for everyone involved. thank you for your time. it s tragic. i appreciate it. it is tragic. happy holidays to you, laura. thank you, and happy new year as well. thanks. you know, he won
you have a white defendant who s been charged with killing an unarmed black man, so that he would get up and make that statement was pretty offensive. but not surprising. i do have some problems with the way the defense presented its case. i think they were trying to play on the jury s sympathies and cause them to, you know, feel sorry for kim potter. and what we do know, kim potter said immediately after she shot daunte wright, i m going to jail. to the extent she was emotional, we know she was emotional about the fear of going to jail, and i hope the jurors didn t discount the emotional testimony from daunte wright s mother, who we know was crying because her 20-year-old son was shot and killed in an unnecessary and in what should have been an avoidable situation. this is such a tragic set of circumstances, a life lost. i can only imagine what that family is going through. frankly, it s unbelievable to think that this happened even during that derek chauvin trial. but this is a ver
the lawyers totally made the right call in the maxwell case by her not testifying, and the other two they had to testify to have any shot at a jury finding them not guilty. i guess it remains to be seen if the juries actually think they made the right call by virtue if they get acquitted or not, great call if there s an acquittal, miscalculation if there s not. i want to talk about potter in this case because here s a part of her cross examination. listen to this. you didn t make sure any officers knew what you had just done, right? no. you didn t run down the street and try to save daunte wright s life, did you? no. you were focused on what you had done because you had just killed somebody. i m sorry it happened. i m sorry.
real heavily on the jury. there are some jurors that have a real the charge in this case is not murder. it s manslaughter. was it negligent? did she accidentally you know, she intended to cause some injury to him, but she didn t intend to kill him. that s first degree manslaughter. that s why this jury is struggling so mightily with the case. you ve got the law that says it looks like if you ve made a mistake you re still responsible. on the other hand, you ve got a really difficult job and a really emotional defendant. none of us want to switch places with that jury. that s why they call it jury duty. they got a really difficult job, and i really hope they are able