be taken off kim potter s gun so they could hold it outside the evidence box. of course it s been rendered safe. they likely want to feel the difference between kim potter s weapon and her taser, though prosecutors did say because the gun is unloaded it s probably not going to match the weight of what kim potter felt in april of this year, but of course it s important because potter has claimed she mistook her taser for her gun when she shot and killed daunte wright during that traffic stop back in april of this year. prosecutors have argued that the mere fact she intended or she says she intended to grab her taser shows that even she didn t think this was a scenario that required lethal force. the defense has argued that if daunte wright had just complied, none of this would have happened. but of course that is the central issue in this trial, and what it seems like the jury is having trouble getting to a consensus on. omar, so much more to look at and of course i m wondering abou
we should go, and what next steps should be taken? the judge referred them to a portion of their jury instructions and said that, well, you should work toward deliberating, toward a consensus, but without violating any individual judgments and further pressed on and said no one should be sacrificing their honest opinions just because they feel pressure to get to a verdict. and as you mentioned, this has now spanned two days total, more than 14 hours. they re of course done deliberating for the day, and this more than 14 hours is already over four hours more than it took to convict derek chauvin back in april of this year. the second question they asked, though, was a little bit more procedural. they just wanted the zip ties to be taken off kim potter s gun so they could hold it outside the evidence box. of course it s been rendered safe. they likely want to feel the difference between kim potter s weapon and her taser, though prosecutors did say because the gun is unloaded it s probabl