idea. for the second time this year a white former minnesota police officer convicted in the death of a black man. what do the guilty verdicts in kim potter s manslaughter trial mean for police nationwide as she said she mistakenly drew a gun instead of a taser and killed daunte wright? legal perspective from paul callen is next. meet stuart and byron, owners of sml, a tiny home architecture firm. they were getting ready to travel to portland, maine for a pitch when their 3d-printer broke. luckily, sml is with american express business platinum,
takes mug shots, the advice he gives people, if they don t do what he tells them, they can come back in 24 hours and he sends them back to a cell and they re very cooperative when they come back. paul, i don t know if you have what we call return. i don t know if you can see the kim potter mug shot that was taken today. but i don t know, it s just it s not what we re accustomed to. she s smiling, she looks good. she s just been convicted on both counts. it s not what we re accustomed to seeing. he just wondered what your reaction would be. you know, i don t have a return so i can t see what you re seeing onscreen. i know when the verdict came down this afternoon, i was surprised at her utter lack of emotion. now, remember, she broke down after firing the fatal shot. but she also broke down for an expensive period of time in court. here the jury comes back with guilty on all counts and she doesn t react to it taat all.
oh, my [ bleep ]! i just shot him. cnn legal analyst paul callen joins me now. paul, i was wrong about the outcome in this one. i thought they were hung. how about you? you know, michael, i had the same feeling, that it was going to be a hung jury. and, you know, i felt that way, and probably you did as well, because historically, jurors give cops the benefit of the doubt when it s a close case. her immediate reaction and sorrow for the shooting suggested that it was in fact an accident. but sometimes, as the prosecutor said, an accident can be a crime as well. and that s what the jury found in this case. one of the outs that jurors could have given her was to accept the defense argument that even if it were the gun she intended to use, that was justified, but they didn t buy that. yes, they could have gone
clients in the past, and so i can t comment on that. wait. wait a minute. was nick nolte one of them? because we all remember the nick nolte shot. no, those mugshots always become classics. no, i can t say that i ever have given advice to them. i can tell you this, my brother who worked for the nypd and takes mugshots, the advice he gives people, if they don t do what he tells them, they can come back in 24 hours and he sends them back to a cell and they re very cooperative when they come back. paul, i don t know if you have what we call return. i don t know if you can see the kim potter mugshot that was taken today. but i don t know, it s just it s not what we re accustomed to. she s smiling, she looks good. she s just been convicted on both counts. it s not what we re accustomed to seeing. i just wondered what your reaction would be. you know, i don t have a return so i can t see what you re seeing onscreen. i know when the verdict came down this afternoon, i was surprised
remember, back in april she shot and killed 20-year-old daunte wright during a traffic stop after she said she accidentally drew her gun instead of a taser as seen in this disturbing body cam video. i ll tase you! i ll tase you! taser, taser, taser! oh, my [ bleep ]! i just shot him. cnn legal analyst paul callen joins me now. paul, i was wrong about the outcome in this one. i thought they were hung. how about you? you know, michael, i had the same feeling, that it was going to be a hung jury. and, you know, i felt that way, and probably you did as well, because historically, jurors give cops the benefit of the doubt when it s a close case. her immediate reaction and sorrow for the shooting suggested that it was in fact an accident. but sometimes, as the prosecutor said, an accident can be a crime as well. and that s what the jury found