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At former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial for fatally shooting Daunte Wright, a Black motorist, the core of her defense is clear: She says she meant to use her Taser but grabbed her handgun instead.

Jurors at the trial of the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who killed Black motorist Daunte Wright are hearing starkly different versions of events. An attorney for former Brooklyn Center

Wednesday’s opening statements come after it took almost a week to seat a jury that turned out to be mostly white.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutor: Minnesota officer charged in Daunte Wrights death...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jurors will be presented with starkly different views of the Minnesota police officer who killed Black motorist Daunte Wright during opening statements at her manslaughter trial Wednesday,

An attorney for the Minnesota police officer who killed Black motorist Daunte Wright told jurors Wednesday that all the young man had to do was surrender to police that day.

The Minneapolis police officer who killed Daunte Wright violated her training and \

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police had reason to believe that Daunte Wright might have a gun...

Police had reason to believe that Daunte Wright might have a gun when they tried to arrest him last spring, a defense attorney told jurors Wednesday at the trial of the suburban Minneapolis police officer who mistakenly killed Wright after shooting him with her gun instead of her Taser.

The former officer said she meant to use a Taser when she shot dead black motorist Daunte Wright.