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Unrest in the minneapolis suburb of brooklyn center. today, a different reaction outside the courthouse in minneapolis. >> weve been fighting for a long time. its bye-bye a long nine months. >> reporter: wrights mother, katie bryant, who tearfully testified during the trial, thanked the community for their support. >> today minnesota has shown that police officers are not going to continue to pull their gun instead of their taser, and we made this happen. >> reporter: potter will be sentenced in...

Into custody. >> accountability is not justice. but accountabiity is an important step. >> reporter: the former minnesota police officer claimed she mistakenly fired her gun... >> i shot him. >> reporter: ...thinking it was her taser during a traffic stop in april. >> i shot him! oh, my god! im going to go to prison! >> reporter: the prosecution argued potter, a 26-year veteran, acted recklessly and with culpable negligence in drawing the wrong weapon, killing duante wright. during her testimony...

This on social media-- unvaccinated people are seeing vaccinated people and boosted people testing positive, theyre saying whats the point? dr. lapook, what is the point? >> reporter: the point is you still may get infected if youre vaxed and boosted, but you are much less likely to get seriously ill. thats the point. >> yuccas: its a good point. dr. jon lapook, thank you. breaking news this afternoon. a minneapolis jury has found former police officer kim potter guilty of manslaughter in the sh...