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Pointed out by a rookie officer. . >> we discussed a little bit of suspicious activity. he noticed a pine tree or air freshener hanging from the rear-view mirror. and the tags were expired. >> reporter: potter revealing they would not have pulled him over at all if she hadnt been training. >> you did stop the vehicle, right? . >> yes. part of field training is that my probationer would make numerous contacts with the public throughout the day. >> reporter: that contact would turn fatal. >> i sho...

Shot and killed daunte wright. >> i remember yelling taser, taser, taser, and nothing happened. and then he told me i shot him. >> plus as the january 6th committee prepares for more key depositions, one of the rioters gets one of the toughest sentences yet for flowing a fire extinguisher at police officers. and dark side of social media, unverified threats on tiktok, shutting down the country. good morning, everybody. its saturday, december 18th, im lindsey reiser. and we have a team of repor...

>> potter revealing they would not have been pulling wright over at all if she hadnt been training that officer. >> why not? >> an air freshener to me is just a violation. >> you did stop the vehicle, right? >> yes, part of field training is that my probationer would make numerous contacts with the public throughout the day. >> reporter: that contact would turn fatal. >> i shot him, oh my god. >> when she pulled her gun instead of her taser. the pocket prosecutor asked her about training. >> you...

Statement helps her case, but thats what a lot of us were thinking in the first place. why in the midst of a pandemic would the law enforcement hone in only someone with an air fresh inner hanging on his mirror or with expired tabs when many of us had expired tabs. that should not have been a priority for the brooklyn center police department. it was almost as if they were doing an experiment and daunte wright was in the wrong place at the wrong time and he bore the brunt of that experiment also...

Punches yesterday, they essentially -- the prosecutor saying that potter was reckless and negligent. and therefore, that she does deserve to go to prison. during cross-examination. she also asked potter whether she thought that daunte wright was indeed a real threat. take a listen. >> never saw a gun? >> no. >> he never threw a punch, right? >> no. >> never kicked anyone? >> no. >> never said im going to kill you? >> no. >> never said im going to shoot you? >> no. >> never said there is a gun in...

Daunte wright who was resisting arrest, fighting with police and attempting to flee and johnson said he pressed the accelerator of the vehicle to get away and johnson said i feared for my life. i thought i was going to be dragged to my death. and kim potter, he said, was justified in using her gun, albeit mistakenly. use of force expert as well as the chief of police said the same thing, that she could have used under the law either her gun or the taser. so, the defense is attempting to lay much...

From someplace at one time. >> reporter: nick watt, cnn, hamtramck, michigan. >> very nice -- very nice report. nick, thank you very much. and to our viewers, thanks for watching. im wolf blitzer in the situation room. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. out front next. breaking nus. a new study finding no evidence that omicron is less severe than the delta variant comes as the pandemic is shattering more records. nfl games now being postponed and one of the nations biggest school distri...

>> yes. >> you still work as a police officer there? >> no. >> and why did you quit? >> there was so much bad things happening, i didnt want my co-workers and i didnt want anything bad to happen to the city. >> reporter: potter is facing first and second-degree manslaughter charges. she has pleaded not guilty to all charges. daunte wrights family releasing a statement calling this killing, quote, preventable as they prepare to spend their first christmas without him. kim potter, in agony as she ...

Shaking and crying when the prosecutors began playing her body cam video frame by frame. she claimed she accidently grabbed her gun instead of her taser when she shot daunte wright. she also said if she hadnt been training another officer that day, she wouldnt have made that traffic stop to begin with. >> if you werent with a field training officer that day and you were on patrol alone, would you have stopped that vehicle? >> most likely not. >> why not? >> an air freshener to me is just an equi...

Prison. do you think thats really going to hurt her? >> she explained, through her attorney, that she was traumatized. and in shock. she was mortified that she had mistaken her gun for a taser. i will tell you, rachel, what really concerns me, troubles me, is this unique minnesota law called spark of life. it allowed the parents of daunte wright to take the witness stand and talk about the importance of his life. which is fine. but it also allowed them to portray their son as this angelic person...