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The former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota cop took the stand in the trial over the shooting death of Daunte Wright.

Former suburban Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter has said she meant to draw her Taser instead of her gun when she shot the 20-year-old Wright as he was trying to

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

Kimberly Potter, the white former Minnesota police officer who killed a Black motorist after claiming she mistook her handgun for her taser, has taken the stand in the high-profile manslaughter trial.

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.

Former suburban Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter has said she meant to draw her Taser instead of her gun when she shot the 20-year-old Wright as he was trying to

Defense rests at officer's trial over Daunte Wright's death from 41NBC News | WMGT-DT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright told jurors at her manslaughter trial on Friday that she “didn’t want to hurt anybody” that day, saying during sometimes tearful testimony that she shouted a warning ab

Former Minneapolis-area police officer Kim Potter took the stand in her own defense on Friday as the defense's final witness before resting its case in the manslaughter trial against the veteran cop for shooting and killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop earlier this year. 

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.