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Kim Potter, the ex-Brooklyn Center police officer charged in Daunte Wright's shooting death, is expected to testify in her own defense Friday morning.

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The Minnesota police officer is hoping to persuade jurors to acquit her of manslaughter charges in what she has said was a gun-Taser mixup.

The Minnesota police officer on trial in the shooting death of Daunte Wright is expected to take the stand Friday, hoping to persuade jurors to acquit her on manslaughter charges.

Kim Potter, the ex-Brooklyn Center police officer charged in Daunte Wright's shooting death, is expected to testify in her own defense Friday morning.

Kim Potter, who is charged with manslaughter in Daunte Wright's death, said she saw a look of fear on another officer's face before she fired.

The white ex-Minnesota police officer who killed Daunte Wright, a Black man, during a traffic stop testified at her manslaughter trial. Kimberly Potter said she mistakenly used her gun, not her Taser.

The trial for Kimberly Potter continues today. Watch a stream of the proceedings beginning at 9 a.m.

Kimberly Potter, who was a police officer in the city of Brooklyn Center just north of Minneapolis, has pleaded not guilty to first- and second-degree manslaughter charges. Her lawyers have said Potter, 49, mistakenly used her handgun instead of her stun gun in the death of Wright, a 20-year-old shot during a traffic stop.