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The white former Minnesota police officer is charged with manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright, a Black motorist. The defense says it was an accident when she grabbed her gun instead of a taser.

Body-camera footage played in court shows Potter saying, "Just let me kill myself," after she fatally shot Daunte Wright at a traffic stop. #kimpotter #dauntewright #trafficstop

Witness testimony resumes Friday in the manslaughter trial of former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright. Watch a livestream at youtube.com/fox9.

And Jussie Smollett was found guilty of falsely reporting a hate crime.

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.

Prosecutors at a former Minnesota police officer’s trial in the shooting of Daunte Wright played extensive video of the aftermath

A police sergeant who was at the scene when Daunte Wright was shot testified Friday that he was holding Wright’s right arm with both hands in an attempt to handcuff him in the moments before he was shot.

Witness testimony resumes Friday in the manslaughter trial of former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright. Watch a livestream at youtube.com/fox9.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A police sergeant who was at the scene when Daunte Wright was shot...

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