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Because this was entirely preventable. totally avoidable. if she had followed her training, paid attention, to what she was doing, and considered the risk. >> in his closing argument, defense attorney earl gray said daunte wright is responsible for his own death. not kim potter because his actions of resisting arrest and trying to drive away forced the brooklyn center officer to try to stop him with a taser to keep her fellow officer safe. >> the state wants [inaudible] street no, no, its at thi...

Does that feed into the prosecutors case as opposed to help her defense? >> i think it was a slam dunk for the prosecutors case because she admitted that her conduct was unreasonable, she admitted she was a 26-year veteran of the police department, that she old had training on taser. she admitted the taser and the gun look and feel different. so she made some critical admissions that are key to the prosecutors case. so when you look at, you know, is there guilt here, i think she proved her own g...

Conduct was reckless. the second-degree manslaughter charge only requires a finding of criminal jusnegligence. theres been a lot of focus on the emotional testimony of kim potter. we know she was e moepgs nal right after she shot daunte wright, saying, look, im going to jail. its hard to know whether, you know, those tears or the emotion we saw on the stand was about being sorry about killing daunte wright or being scared about going to jail. i think were not focusing enough on she pitched milte...

Police officer kim potter. she fatally shot 20-year-old daunte wright in april after she claims she mistook her gun for her taser. on friday, potter testified in her own defense. she apologized saying she did not plan to use deadly force that day. >> you knew that deadly force was unreasonable and unwarranted in this circumstance. >> i didnt want to hurt anybody. >> joining me now to discuss the case civil rights attorney and cnn legal affairs analyst areva martin. we saw that moment in courtroo...

Revolver as a taser. potter broke down during her testimony as prosecutors pressured her on why she did not try to get help for wright after shooting him. >> im sorry it happened. im sorry. >> for more on this, im joins by nbcs stephanie stanton who is in minneapolis covering this for us. stephanie, good to see you this afternoon. talk us through what youre hearing, and reaction to potters incredibly emotional testimony? >> reporter: yeah, well, hello to you, yasmin. it was incredibly emotional....

Do is to show up in response to that subpoena and answer the questions on a question-by-question basis. and tell them which will questions over which will he intends to assert the executive privilege so that they have a record and take that to court. so, his complete refusal to play ball, i think, is why they referred him to criminal prosecution. but it might be that a civil claim is more effective than actually coercing his testimony which is what they want here in the end. >> julie tsirkin, th...

You know, she was in training, she was working with a trainee, she said, on the stand. and she said it really wasnt her idea to pull over daunte wrights vehicle, she even testified had she been alone she probably would have never pulled over the vehicle. nonetheless, they pulled over the car, there was a tag violation, an air freshener violation. as we heard from kim potter on the stand, she laid out that chain of events that she said ended up going horribly wrong. >> we were struggling. we were...

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Bryant revealing what she saw on facetime. >> and she said that they shot him. and she faced the phone towards the drivers seat. my son was laying there. he was unresponsive, and he -- he looked dead. >> reporter: bryant testified a neighbor then drove her to the scene about ten miles outside minneapolis. she identified her son in the middle of a street by his sneakers. >> it was the worst day of my life. >> reporter: defense attorneys arguing there was a warrant for wrights arrest, and he resis...

Year. the prosecution calling wrights mother to the stand today who described seeing her sons body on the ground. adrienne broaddus is out front, and i warn you that some of the video in her piece is disturbing. >> reporter: katie bryant shaken as she describes her final conversation with her son, daunte wright. bryant was the first witness called in the manslaughter trial of former-police officer kim potter. potter is accused of shooting and killing wright, after she says she mistakingly pulled...