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Have been found guilty. joining me shaquille bruster and kristen gibbons. shaq, let me start with you, what are you hearing from activists, wrights family from people who day in and day out were at that trial? >> theres still that sense of surprise you hear. you saw that reflected in the moments after the verdict was read where there was an uproar of cheers outside the courthouse, people hugging, singing, then inside the courtroom you saw the emotion from the mother of dante wright, the woman on...

And he talked about police departments needing to truly train law enforcement to rethink their perspective here. we all heard what she testified and said, you know, this was a mistake that she had mistaken her taser for her gun. do you think that this is a question of insufficient training? or better screening or also training on -- more training on implicit bias? >> i think there needs to be more training on implicit bias. whether she may have saw a taser or a gun, she shouldnt had to have seen...

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Heard yelling, i love you, kim, after her bail was revoked, as she was escorted from the court in handcuffs. potter said she intended to deploy her taser during a traffic stop in april, but fired her gun instead, killing 20-year-old daunte wright almost instantly. >> i shot him! oh, my god! >> reporter: shortly after the verdict, crowds outside the courthouse chanted wrights name, while the state pushed to reassure potters police family. >> when a member of your profession is held accountable, i...

Be safe out there. thank you very much. cheers. up next on "the reidout," guilty on both counts. and the family of daunte wright gets a measure of justice at the hands of police officer kim potter. also, with covid cases surging and testing hard to find, there is some good news tonight about covid. plus, wow, what a year. >> i joseph robinette biden jr. do solemnly swear. >> i joseph robinette biden jr. do solemnly swear. >> a look back at the moments of joy from 2021, from trump getting e...

Theyre not using uyghur muslim forced labour. but does it go far enough? we speak to a leading uyghur activist. welcome to our viewers in the uk and around the globe. a jury in the us state of minnesota has found a white former police officer guilty of manslaughter for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man. the prosecution argued that kimberley potter had shown culpable negligence when she killed daunte wright during a routine traffic check in april. the jury was shown bodycam footage, stop...

Charges, is to be pardoned by the government. and the renowned american journalist and author, joan didion, dies at the age of 87. hello and welcome. a jury in the american state of minnesota has found a white former police officer guilty of manslaughter for having shot dead an unarmed black motorist. during the trial kim potter said she had mistaken her handgun for a taser when she killed daunte wright in april. he had been pulled over in a routine traffic stop, as david willis reports. it was ...

On Thursday, jurors convicted suburban Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter of two manslaughter charges in the killing of Daunte Wright, a black motorist she shot during a traffic stop after she said she confused her gun for her taser. The mostly white jury deliberated for about four days before finding former officer Potter guilty of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter. The 49-year-old Potter faces about seven years in prison on the most serious count under the state's sentencing ...

Shoot daunte wright, a jury in effect today said she should have known better. they found the officer guilty on two counts of manslaughter, rejecting her defense that she mistakenly fired her gun instead of a taser during a struggle with mr. wright. it is where we start tonight with ron allen. >> we, the jury, on the charge of manslaughter in the first degree while committing a misdemeanor find the defendant guilty. >> reporter: tonight a jury finding former police officer kimberly potter guilty...

In jail after a jury found her guilty of first and second degree manslaughter for shooting and killing daunte wright, a 20-year-old black man during a traffic stop. crowds outside the courthouse cheered and chanted dontaes name when the verdict was read. joining me now is our reporter from outside the minneapolis courthouse and a veteran trial lawyer and former president of the national bar association. good morning to you both. so, shaq, as you know, convictions of police are rare, but now in m...