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Meant to use her tazer and instead pulled out her gun. a closer look at her emotional testimony. >> im sorry it happened. >> you didnt plan to use deadly force that day, did you? >> no. >> because you knew deadly force was unreasonable in that circumstance? >> i didnt want to hurt anybody. >> on the cross-examination, former minnesota police officer kim porter wept. >> you stopped doing your job completely? you didnt communicate what happened over the radio, right? >> no. >> you didnt make sure ...

And confusion. giving employers time and policies time to update their policies would lead to the confusion. >> thank you so much for joining us to make sense of this new variant. >> thank you. former police officer kim potter broke down on the stand this week as she walked jurors through the fatal shooting of wright. our legal guests will discuss the decision to have her on the stand. >> new warnings things will get worse before it gets better. ♪ ththis holiday, let them shine like never be...

State. >> are you in therapy? >> yes. >> do you still work as an officer? >> no. >> there was so much bad happening there. i didnt want anything bad to happen to my co-workers. >> facing first and second degree murder charges. she pleads not guilty. >> danta wright released a statement calling the killing, quote, preventable as they prepare to spend their first christmas without him. porter in agony said she never would have initiated had she been working alone. testifying it was a car fresher l...

>> an officers body camera captured her response. >> potter testified she never fired her gun or tazer in the field? >> you had drawn your tazer but not fired it in your 26-year career. >> yes. >> you never saw a weapon on mr. wright? >> no. >> never saw a gun? >> no. >> never saw a punch? >> no. >> zeroing in on training. >> these items look different. the tazer is yellow and the firearm is black? >> yes. >> youve been trained on the tazer since 2006. >> potter testified she sold her family hom...