it was that recruit that wanted to pull over that vehicle, daunte wright s car for a tag violation and an air freshener violation. potter says she testified on the stand had she been alone she probably wouldn t have pulled over wright s car. she also talked about how things got very chaotic before the trigger was pulled. take a listen. we were struggling we were trying to keep him from driving away. it just went chaotic. and then i remember yelling taser, taser, taser, and nothing happened, and then he told me i shot him. you didn t run down the street and try to save daunte wright s life, did you? no.
chaotic, she mistook her gun for taser. stephanie, let s talk about that moment. the court had to take a break. potter became very emotional describing the moments that led up to that fatal shooting. reporter: yeah, good morning to you, lindsey. she did get very emotional during several points throughout her testimony yesterday. as she described those fateful moments back in april when she thought and killed daunte wright during that traffic stop. now, during her testimony, she described how she was training a new officer, it was that officer, she said that wanted to pull over wright s vehicle for those minor violations being a tag violation and air freshener violation. potter also testified had she been alone, she probably would not have pulled over daunte wright s vehicle. she also then went on to talk about the chain of events that led up to that moment that went terribly wrong. take a listen. we were struggling we were trying to keep him from driving
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.