away. it just it just went chaotic. and then, i mean, i remember yelling taser, taser, taser. and nothing happened. and then he told me i shot him. reporter: and potter who is 49 years old is a police veteran. she faces charges-first degree and second degree manslaughter, lindsay. potter was repeatedly pressed by the prosecutor has to whether wright even ever posed a threat to her. reporter: yeah, indeed, lindsey, you know, potter has maintained that this whole thing was a terrible accident. but the prosecution pulled no
to say that she never, in her 26 years of being an officer, had deployed a taser. well, that goes straight to count two and criminal negligence, right? the idea that, you know, you have had all these certifications and recertifications and you are out in in the public to protect and to serve, which is your duty and your oath of office. and you have, you know, these these weapons on your body that you are completely ignorant of using. and by the way, there is a department policy that you are supposed to test fire your taser each time you sign onto your shift and you failed to do that. so it goes to criminal negligence and i think she really sort of established the prosecution s case through some of these admissions. the the defense tried to humanize her. talked about her family. how she decided to become a police officer. is i mean, will the jury be tasked with looking at that? or will they just be looking at first, second-degree manslaughter charges? well you know, anderson
to the facts. um, and that that is what they are supposed to do but remember it takes one straggling heart out of these 12 hearts to hang the jury and i think that is what he the defense is going for. and so, if the jury goes with simple sifrm think and mercy, that s obviously one outcome. but the really correct outcome is applying the law to the facts. i mean, the idea that she was kind of a rookie even though she had 26 years of experience. she should have had a desk job and not been in the field. but none of that really matters because manslaughter is an accidental shooting. so, closing arguments start monday. what do you expect? i expect that the prosecution s going to argue that her mistake was not a reasonable officer mistake. you can t compare her to a regular human being. she is an officer, she has training, she has duties that she essentially breached. they are going to say not only deadly force was not jiustified but even her taser was unreasonable to use. that is accor
oh what a wonderful world closing arguments are scheduled for monday in the trial of former police officer kim potter who is charged in the death of daunte wright. testimony ended this afternoon after potter took the stand giving an emotional account of the deadly traffic stop last april. cnn security correspondent josh campbell has details. and remember yelling taser,
you know, she was in training, she was working with a trainee, she said, on the stand. and she said it really wasn t her idea to pull over daunte wright s vehicle, she even testified had she been alone she probably would have never pulled over the vehicle. nonetheless, they pulled over the car, there was a tag violation, an air freshener violation. as we heard from kim potter on the stand, she laid out that chain of events that she said ended up going horribly wrong. we were struggling. we were trying to keep him from driving away. it just it just was panic. chaotic. and then i mean, i remember yelling taser, taser, taser. and nothing happened. and then he told me i shot him.