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Final conversation with her son, daunte wright. bryant was the first witness called to trial. potter is accused of shooting and killing wright as she says she mistakingly pulled her gun instead of her taser. >> he called me to tell me he had been pulled over. he asked if he was in trouble, and he just sounded really nervous. but i reassured him that it would be okay. >> reporter: what bryant heard next still haunts her. >> i heard the phone being put down. i heard somebody say to hang up the pho...

Vehicle. >> get out of the car so we can help him! >> reporter: this new body camera video showing the chaotic aftermath. >> who else is in the car? >> reporter: alayna albrecht-payton, who was in the car with wright, injured and sobbing. the 20-year-old, whod been dating wright, taking the stand today, describing the harrowing moments. >> i just remember, like, hearing, like, just like the boom, the bang of the gun. >> reporter: albrecht-payton saying she tried to save wrights life. >> i took m...

All right. in just a few hours, day two in the trial of kimberly potter, the defense claims this ex-police officer mistook her gun for a taser when she killed daunte wright during a traffic stop. there was emotional testimony wednesday from the prosecutions first witness, the victims mother. >> i heard the officer tell daunte, no. and i heard daunte say, no, im not. sounded like he said, dont run. daunte said, no, im not. a female answered the phone because it was facetimed. she was screaming an...

Taser, taser, taser. >> oh, man! >> [ bleep ]. i just shot him. i shot him! oh, my god! oh, my god! >> reporter: daunte wright was pronounced dead at the scene from a gunshot wound to his chest. >> theres no do over when you take a young mans life. >> reporter: kim potter is now on trial for first and second degree manslaughter. she has pleaded not guilty and said she meant to use her taser, which is holstered on her left side but mistakenly withdrew her firearm from the right side. they body ca...

To turn on whether the deadly force was justified, which it was not. and whether the mistake that shes claiming was reasonable in and of itself. >> as we mentioned, the prosecutions first witness was daunte wrights mother, who was obviously and understandably very emotional. do you think that was an effective strategy to put her on the stand to try to show jurors who her son was? >> 100%, wolf. because look, i have represented both police officers and civilians in use-of-force cases and the bigg...

Lot of noise around it but when you look at the core of what theyre trying to do, the charges that are filed and how they presented the evidence so far in the arguments theyve made in opening statements, everything fits. they have multiple lanes in which they can obtain a conviction here as long as they can explain the jury instructions to the jury. theyre doing a very good job so far because those charges that are against potter right now, there are, like i said, multiple ways in which the jury...

Watched it very closely and before she yelled taser, taser, taser, she had been gun ready for about 20 to 25 seconds. i saw her put her hand on the gun and remove her hand from her gun on her strong side at least three times. so what does that tell me? that she was ready to use gun on somebody that had, what, no insurance card? registration was expired on the car? where was her deescalation at all here? and when she was gun ready and she was going to still use a taser on somebody who was unarmed...

Rights and immigration. of course that would take 60 votes as well and would be a long shot to get done. aaron? >> for us at his post at the capitol. thank you. breakings news now. a detroit attorney just filed two separate $100 million lawsuits against the oxford school district and several school employees there in michigan. thats after last weeks deadly school shooting that took the lives of four students. the attorney filing the suits on behalf of a student shot in the neck and her sister ...

Which is holstered on her left side but mistakenly withdrew her firearm from her right side. in opening arguments, prosecutors showed the juror body camera footage of the shooting. and focused on the firearms training potter received which they say was extensive. >> she was trained not to shoot an unarmed driver. she was trained not to fire into a vehicle. and she was also trained not to use her taser on a fleeing suspect. we trust them to know wrong from right and left from right. >> the defens...

Nervous and flustered as he was asked for his license and insurance. that was what the rest of the testimony was focused on, the crash scene, seemingly drilling down on the point that we heard the prosecution make yesterday during opening statements, that even after kim potter used her gun instead of her taser, mistakenly, in her words, that no help -- or that information was not radioed in to other officers. so it led to this minutes-long standoff at another scene right down the street when the...