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The trial of Kim Potter begins this week as jurors determine whether the former suburban Minneapolis police officer is criminally liable for the death of a 20-year-old Black man during

Defense lawyers argued that Potters use of a weapon was justified, even as they acknowledged she meant to draw her Taser, not her handgun. "Shes a human being," said attorney Paul Engh.

A white suburban Minneapolis police officer charged with manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright, a Black man, said she meant to use her Taser but...

Opening statements began Wednesday morning in the trial of former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter, who is charged in the death of Daunte Wright.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — 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

A prosecutor at the manslaughter trial of the Minnesota police officer who killed Daunte Wright has told jurors that Kim Potter violated her training and “betrayed a 20-year-old kid.”

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — 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

Potter is charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter for shooting Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, in April.

Kimberly Potter, a former police officer in a city north of Minneapolis, has said she mistakenly used her handgun instead of her Taser when firing at Daunte Wright, 20, as he attempted to flee in his car following a traffic stop.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she mistakenly drew her gun instead of her Taser when she fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright went on trial on manslaughter charges Wednesday, with a prosecutor saying Kim Potter