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Potter said she was issued the new taser on March 26 and told jurors she had never deployed the device while on duty.

Former Minnesota Police Officer Kim Potter grew emotional while testifying about the moment she shot Daunte Wright during an altercation in a vehicle. She has previously said she meant to grab her taser during the incident and is accused of manslaughter.

The former Minnesota officer on trial in the shooting death of Daunte Wright said she believed he was trying to flee an arrest. Defense lawyers say that fleeing would have endangered a fellow officer.

WBAL Radio 1090 AM - Kim Potter trial updates: Potter testifies in her own defense

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright testified at her manslaughter trial Friday that she wouldn't have pulled over his car if she hadn't been training another officer and that she hadn't planned

The defense has rested in the manslaughter trial of Kim Potter, who was a Minnesota police officer when she fatally shot Daunte Wright during an April 11 traffic stop. Potter has said she meant to use her stun gun but grabbed her handgun instead.

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.

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Facing manslaughter charges, ex-officer Kimberly Potter tells court fatal Minnesota traffic stop ‘just went chaotic’.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota officer testifying at her trial over Daunte Wrights...