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The cross-examination and really the prosecution, ana, is taking her to task. youre an overs for 26 years. you may not have had to deploy your taser but certainly you pulled it out. you know where your taser belongs. youve been turnaround on this before. not only are you trained on this but you do the training with respect to that, and even though you havent had to use it nor your firearm, you know where each one belongs. you know the design distinctions between the two. you know the weight, alt...

>> yes. >> you said you started in 1995? >> yes. >> and that was with the brooklyn center police department for the entire career, right? >> yes. >> and you said that you resigned from the brooklyn center police department, right? >> yes. >> and that was on april 12th of this year, right? >> yeah. within a day or two of the incident. >> right after you had shot and killed daunte wright? >> yes. >> and throughout that time period you were a licensed peace officer, right? >> yes. >> and to become ...

>> so, you got this information and then made this decision to go arrest mr. wright? >> yes. >> and you didnt talk about going out there with guns drawn or anything like that? you did not talk about using force on the approach or anything like that? >> no. >> then officer lucky asked mr. wright to get out of the car which he did? >> yes. >> and you stood back and watched this happen, correct? >> i was just a couple feet away. >> okay. you didnt correct the way it happened. you didnt tell officer...

>> yes. >> and they were your second family, werent they? >> yes. >> as far as complaints, in the 26 years that you were a police officer, did you ever have one citizen complaint? >> objection, your honor, to the sc scope. >> the objection is sustained beyond the scope. >> i have no further questions. >> any cross? >> no, your honor. >> you may step down. >> thank you. >> defense rests. >> so youve just been watching testimony from kim potter who, of course, is accused of killing daunte wright d...

I didnt hear you. >> if it is in there, i must have. that day is so blurry. >> did you also tell him that you yelled taser, taser, taser so yu partners would disengage from wright? >> yes. and just a few more questions here. would it be routine thinking back when you were a law enforcement officer for 26 years, would it be routine for you to unsnap your holster on the way to a car. >> no. >> and why not.

And asked for a break, it was close to getting off the rails. >> to be clear, you think that because the prosecution isnt presenting evidence that she consciously did this, this means shes likely to get off from this? >> absolutely, katy. and its really difficult for me to say that because i think todays testimony clarifies, daunte wright was racially profiled. she came as close to admitting that openly as shes going to. excessive force was used against him. however, if you look at the law criti...

They let go of daunte wright and stepped back? >> cork to the video. according to the video. >> and after you shot daunte wright, you said, "shit, i just shot him, i grabbed the wrong fucking gun and i shot him, im going to go to prison and i killed a boy." you said all those things, right? >> i dont remember. >> thats whats on the video, thats what you said, right? >> yes. >> and you said that there are a lot of things you dont remember, on direct you testified that your memory came back when y...

They were not with ill intent, they have to like her. i think they are connecting. how could you not? she cry asked was on the floor crying hysterically someone testified. you could train someone all day long, but in the field where things are stress filled and you dont have that specific scenario all the time, you are going to make mistakes. the question is: is it criminal negligence? i say so far it falls way short. >> sandra: there is a focus on the timing of which she quit her job 2 days aft...

Obviously emotional about having taken another human beings life, what is she reckless? was it foreseeable? did she not guard against the risk that the use of the wrong we orange the firearm rather than the taser, makes it criminally culpable? culpable negligence. thats what the jury is looking at. at no point, i think the prosecutor is very smart here not to try to hone in and say a-ha, this is sub-who had it out for daunte wright. thats not what the evidence seems to show nor what her statemen...

Taser, taser, taser, and nothing happened and then he told me i shot him. >> laura, what do you think is the impact of that she motional moment and the connection perhaps that she makes with the jury in a moment like that? >> well, it is very compelling to think that shes not at all just a hardened murderer or somebody who is nonchalant about the death of somebody elses child. i mean, weve already heard from daunte wrights mother. we can imagine what that was like for her to have the phone call ...