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prosecutors, same of them questioning ms. potter on the taser training. here is part of that. part of the taser policy includes that all training should include performing reaction hand draws or cross draws to reduce the possibility of accidently drawing and firing a firearm. that s part of the policy, right? that s what it says. and that s part of what you re trained to do, correct? we didn t always draw from we aren t always drawing our tasers from our holsters. a lot of time we did closed in training. the policy you re required to abide by that you signed off on requires you perform reactionariry hand draws, true? during the training, yes. does any of this defense make sense to you? not at all and no excuse for a professionally trained police officer and experienced professionally trained police officer to confuse the taser for the firearm. that testimony and other
requires review of policy, the taser policy, yes? cre. and it also involves practicing those reaction draws, right? sometimes. if we could put up exhibit 334, please, the last page. this has already been admitted at exhibit 334. and we re going scroll down to the very last page and highlight the subsection c, please. so, part of the taser policy includes that all training should include performing, reaction hand draws, cross-draws to reduce the possibility of accidentally drawing and firing a firearm. that s part of the policies, right? that s what it says. and that s part of what you re trained to do, correct? we didn t always draw from
those reaction time draws, correct? sometimes. all right. if we could put up exhibits 334, the last page. i will put on the screen what was already admitted as exhibit 334. we will scroll down to the very last page. and highlight section c please. so, part of the taser policy includes that all training should include performing reaction hand draws to reduce the possibility of accidentally drawing and firing a firearm? that s what it says. that s what you were trained to do? we were not always drawing tasers from holtsteres.
it s just an equipment violation, and during the covid times, the high covid times, the department of motor vehicles was so offline that people weren t getting tabs and we were advised not to try to enforce a lot of those things because the tabs were just not in circulation. part of the taser policy includes that all training should include performing reaction hand draws or cross draws to reduce the possibility of accidentally drawing and firing a firearm. that s part of the policy. right? that s what it says. and that s part of what you re trained to do. correct? we aren t always drawing our tasers from our holsters. a lot of times we re in plain clothes during training. your policy you re required to abide by that you signed off on required that you perform active hand draws. true? during training, yes. it also includes the reason? yes. so you reduce the possibility